[Amy_S]

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I've had enough of it. I want to live in a Britain where the shops are closed on Sundays, and where the men have square jawlines and short-back-and-sides, and smoke pipes and drive Rover cars with elegant walnut dashboards and engines that purr and tyres that glide along the lanes of my beloved home counties; where women bake cakes from recipes published in Good Housewife magazine, wearing elegant court shoes in patent leather, and knee-length cotton dresses of floral print.

I want to live in a world where I belong. It isn't much to ask.

[spoty]

Move to some Welsh village, or just read the Daily Mail and pretend.

[Doc Shmok]

Don't worry modern civilisation has reached it's peak. It can't get cheaper, faster and so on and everyone has already a camera in their face for the latest "reality" show. Give or take 20 years and all the hype will be in a globally warmed China.

[blueblade]

Originally Posted by Amy_S

Good cholesterol and bad cholesterol, BMI indicators and annual APR, Bluetooth and IPODs, subject to status, and Terms and Conditions apply, global warming and global dimming, and ASBOs and SORNs and call us now for free - no win no fee, and this call may be recorded for monitoring or training purposes.

I've had enough of it. I want to live in a Britain where the shops are closed on Sundays, and where the men have square jawlines and short-back-and-sides, and smoke pipes and drive Rover cars with elegant walnut dashboards and engines that purr and tyres that glide along the lanes of my beloved home counties; where women bake cakes from recipes published in Good Housewife magazine, wearing elegant court shoes in patent leather, and knee-length cotton dresses of floral print.

I want to live in a world where I belong. It isn't much to ask.

I wouldn't mind a Rover car. In the meantime I'll make do with my "chav" Honda Civic

Incidentally, why do we have to smoke pipes. That should be optional. Smoking is bad for you, don't you know ?

Also, I wouldn't have a short back and sides if you paid me.

[Boom]

Nah i definately live in the modern world. I was on paypoints website yesterday seeing if i could top up my Gas card online I hate pre-pay gas cards i want the landlord to rip it out and put a real gas meter in!

If i see google i know im at home

[flicker]

Originally Posted by spoty

Move to some Welsh village......

Haha, said in jest, but how right you are. There is still half day closing on Wednesdays and Saturdays here you know, and you used to have to make it a day out to go food shopping to Tescos until a few weeks ago. Oh the joy....

[larrysrabbit]

Amy_S - without the modern world there would be no DS!
TBH I think I belong in the modern world. We live longer, have better housing, healthcare and career prospects. Women are seen as more than breeders, and those that are mothers are seen as workers, lovers and friends as well as a parent.
We live in a more equal society where homosexuality and race do not make you an outcast.
This is just my view of the modern world and yes, there is famine, war, paedophiles and persecution but that has always existed. Britain in the 1950's was not like The Darling Buds of May - there were slums, poor health, racism, backstreet abortions etc . At least now we have more information about the world at our fingertips and don't live in a nice middle class bubble.

[magnificent]

Originally Posted by Amy_S

Good cholesterol and bad cholesterol, BMI indicators and annual APR, Bluetooth and IPODs, subject to status, and Terms and Conditions apply, global warming and global dimming, and ASBOs and SORNs and call us now for free - no win no fee, and this call may be recorded for monitoring or training purposes.

I've had enough of it. I want to live in a Britain where the shops are closed on Sundays, and where the men have square jawlines and short-back-and-sides, and smoke pipes and drive Rover cars with elegant walnut dashboards and engines that purr and tyres that glide along the lanes of my beloved home counties; where women bake cakes from recipes published in Good Housewife magazine, wearing elegant court shoes in patent leather, and knee-length cotton dresses of floral print.

I want to live in a world where I belong. It isn't much to ask.

Well I agree with you to an extent....I'm a Rover 620sli driver...alas female Gotta luv that walnut dashboard.

But I think there are elements of modern living that I love and elements that frustrate the hell out of me. I'm a known luddite (to my friends), and quite frankly, modern does not equate to better. In some ways I think we've reached the tipping point to no return with modernity - its too far gone.

Even the internet, to which we all partake, seems set on a course to implode one day.

[elena]

I don't mind modern life but sometimes wish I could've grown up in the 1960s. What a great decade to be a teenager or in your twenties! (Apart from the constant threat of nuclear war, of course ).

I dunno. I get the feeling I might one day move to the Isle of Man or somewhere where things are still very community-based and perhaps a little old fashioned.

[susie-4964]

Every generation always thinks they'd have been better off living in an earlier time when things were great - we always look back with rose-coloured spectacles! Also, parents have been complaining about the "younger generation" for centuries as well. Some things superficially were better, close sense of community for example, but most weren't. My grandfather died from a disease (tuberculosis) that's easily cured today. Women were almost forced to be in the kitchen and home-making whether they wanted to or not, it was the only option for a respectable woman, and many hated it. I can understand the OP's wish to return to a world where everyone knew their role in life, but on balance I think it's better to have more choice and freedom.

[blueboy]

Well i must own just about every kind of modern gadget and yet still find i agree with the op and her views.

The problem is that in todays modern world you have to become a gadget freek to experience and participate in everyday activities now. We live in a world of internet, swipe cards, electronic driving licences/passports and other things.

I have changed as a person because technology has forced my hand. But i still crave the more simplistic, less complicated and less expensive lifestyle we all had before.

[Biz]

A house which is warm in every corner, a huge choice of (fresh) food in store(freezer), ability to organize banking, shopping, communication, from home, personal transport, automatic washing machine, warm lightweight clothing and boots........wouldn't you miss any of it, Amy_S?

...........enjoy before it all disappears in a puff of smoke.

[newwoman]

Originally Posted by elena

I dunno. I get the feeling I might one day move to the Isle of Man or somewhere where things are still very community-based and perhaps a little old fashioned.

We moved out of London 2 years ago to a village just outside the M25. It's like a throwback to another age here. It is very community based, we have residents meetings, organised country walks, have a community police station and it makes the local newsletter (written by the vicar and chairman of the residents association) when some teenagers were riding scooters over the fields!! All that and we're only 4 miles from a decent sized but very nice town.

I love it. Bet our son ends up whinging 'its boring' as soon as he's old enough though.

[kays_dad]

It is still possible to have your cake and eat it: we live in a small(ish) village near quite a large town. Within a few hundred yards (metres!) of our front door, we can be in hopfields or orchards or 20 minutes on the bus or in the car puts us in the town.

Also, we have easy access to good fresh food and all the amenities for modern life: example, I can order stuff over the 'net and have it delivered to my desk at work within a few days ... I'd not lightly give that up.

Sure, there's bad things today, but most of them were (probably) always there, they're just more widely known about "these days". I sometimes regret the passing of "simpler" times, but like I said, my kids can still get easy access to a stream to splash about it in their wellies so we're all happy.

And I agree with other posters that there's a tendency to romanticise the past and that we shouldn't forget advances in medicine that we all take for granted: a complication with my wife's second pregnancy would have left me bringing up my first and, as she would have been only, child on my own had it been only 20 years ago, but an ultrasound scan showed up the problem weeks in advance and the hospital were able to make plans for an uncomplicated birth. So I'm happy where and when I am ...

[kays_dad]

newwoman, snap !!

[Ella Plastique]

There are aspects of the modern world I couldn't do without; and aspects of the past I'd do anything to have back



My daughter seems to think that being a teen in the 80s must have been some kind of paradise for us. She won't accept that it wasn't all Cyndi Lauper and pink legwarmers

[susie-4964]

Originally Posted by kays_dad

It is still possible to have your cake and eat it: we live in a small(ish) village near quite a large town. Within a few hundred yards (metres!) of our front door, we can be in hopfields or orchards or 20 minutes on the bus or in the car puts us in the town.

Also, we have easy access to good fresh food and all the amenities for modern life: example, I can order stuff over the 'net and have it delivered to my desk at work within a few days ... I'd not lightly give that up.

That's quite true. I live in Greater London, and it's possible to get milk from cows that graze just a mile up the road at a proper farm. It takes about 10 minutes to get into the country proper. I couldn't live in a small village, I'd go mental, but i like where I am - big city in one direction, countryside in the other.

[Lyricalis]

I love the time we are in now and look forward to all the new things that are going to be invented in the future. Sure, things aren't perfect, but they never were and never will be.

[Smeggypants]

I live in a future world.

A world where Organised Religion and the corruption and wars that go with it are long dead. A world where there's no sexual repression. No racism. No misogyny, No Homophobia. No low self esteem and no guilt.


We're getting there but stil have a long way to go.

[Suzie80's]

I'm not really into advancements in technology; things like that don't interest me at all. I think I would have preferred the '60's, '70's and '80's. (I was born in 1980.)

Having said that, I do love my laptop and internet and I guess I wouldn't have that if I was living in a different era!

[redjay]

There are lots of things about the modern world that I find, scary, alarming, disturbing and sad. But having said that there are still a lot of wonderful things out there.

I often think I belong to a bygone age, a simpler time, I could do without quite happily a lot of the stuff that I have.

I am lucky though to live in a little village, with a proper community, a little village school and an idylic little country pub. I have to travel 5 miles to get a loaf of bread and we have one bus a week. It's a beautiful place set amongst lovely scenery, the air is fresh, it is peacefull, the last crime happened in the village over 4 years ago. The older people are respected and the young ones nutured and encouraged. It is social and warm and friendly. The children growing up here have so much space and freedom and I can't think of any where else I would rather live.

I do live in a modern world, but I take only the little bits of it that I want to. I think we have all have a choice just how much we belong to this modern world.

[MyJD]

The problem isnt modern gadgets or hyped-up scare stories like global warming or mass-casualty terrorism - its the lack of purpose and community spirit.

Britain has lost its way big time. There is no feel good factor about the place and that leads to boredom and fear, rather than the embracing of, new technologies and ideas.

Thats what I think anyway.

If I lived 100 years ago, I would have a much lower quality of life but atleast I could have pride in my country.

[Hathor]

Originally Posted by blueblade

I wouldn't mind a Rover car. In the meantime I'll make do with my "chav" Honda Civic

Ha ha! Is it a 'type R'?

[Hathor]

Originally Posted by Smeggypants

I live in a future world.
A world where Organised Religion and the corruption and wars that go with it are long dead. A world where there's no sexual repression. No racism. No misogyny, No Homophobia. No low self esteem and no guilt.
We're getting there but stil have a long way to go.

Is that after the human race has died off?

[Muggsy]

Originally Posted by MyJD

If I lived 100 years ago, I would have a much lower quality of life but atleast I could have pride in my country.

Sorry, but I'll take central heating over pride in my country any day.