Credit crunch and recession, were we happier in the 80's anyway?

Question

Credit crunch and recession, were we happier in the 80's anyway?

Answer 1

No they weren't.

Go read about unemployment figures in the 80s.

Answer 2

The 80's was my time, I was 12 in 1980.

Things were more austere but poverty was relative and being poor  was no cause for shame.

Shopping at jumble sales was common place, trainers came from Woolworths and cost the equivalent of about £1 today. Nobody I knew got hundreds or even thousands of pounds spent on them for Birthdays and Christmas - I was happy to get anything.

Nobody cared about to any great degree what clothes you wore, it was OK to be a kid until your mid teens. Discipline was handed out by any passing adult and we still feared police officers, teachers and especiallyour parents - bizarrely nobody I know seems to have suffered long term psycological damange from this. In the 80's we still 'played out' and it cost us and our parents nothing. We had 1 TV with 3 Channels and all it cost was the TV licence.

I'd say in the main we were less stressed - then again our aspirations were very different.

Answer 3

The only people who were happy in the 80s were the rich people doing lines off of a hooker's butt.

The 80s sucked.  The 90s was the decade of happiness.

Answer 4

But the neon clothes and power ballads were ace !

Answer 5

No I don't think people were happier. The music was terrible apart from the Smiths!