yea I used to believe that, I kind of laughed when I read your post because I used to have a college friend who like me thought she belonged in the roaring 20's ...until our history class covered that era.. the roaring 20's was the time of prohibition ( all forms of alcohol and bootlegging moonshine was illegal and punishable by life in prison if caught with any form of alcohol) it was also a time of prostitution otherwise called "flapper women" flapper girls"..gangsters (now called the mob) controlled most everything some even whole cities and government officials...the world war was ending and we didnt have mental health services other than placing people in asylums (commonly known as warehousing the mentally ill, handicapped and in many cases the blacks, and other races that were snubbed and considered wrong back then, we didnt have equality for races, handlicapped, gays, lesbians and other lifestyles that are now considered to be normal, back in the 20's there werent any computers, tvs were black and white no cable no digital, and you were lucky if you could receive one channel on the tv and radios. there was lots of epidemics and death as a result of diseases because we didnt have the medications to stop things like the flu, it was called the depression era because jobs were scarce and far between and millions were homeless or working in factories that had no union, laws, many children died in factories because there was no such thing as child labor laws back then. our teacher asked us to imagine working for 5 dollars a day in a factory and never knowing whether you were going to live to collect that 5 dollars at the end of the week because the job had no safety requirements/laws, children as young as 5 yrs old were running up and down replacing spools of thread and getting pulled into the gears.. schools / colleges were for the rich not the middle and lower class..the stock market crashed, leaving millions of people destitute, many committed suicide because they didnt have money to survive, it was too depressing for them to be homeless and with out food, clothing and shelter. there wasnt all the rights women have today, back then women were objects for men (look pretty, give sex any time their man wanted it, bare childre, take care of the house and home....) and had to obey their man...

most people I know that felt like they belong in another era usually felt that way because of the enjoyable side of the era, they wanted the good side and nothing of the down side like the roaring 20's had like jazz music, the charleston, tap dancing.. but they didnt think about the fact that they could be arrested and killed just by saying they didnt agree with the governing body.

After taking that class I was glad I live in the present time. I am so glad we live in a time when being a lesbian is accepted not punishable by commitment to the insane assylum, that children in america are no longer used as expendable objects for sex and factory work, that women are no longer considered pretty objects on their mans arm doing their duty of baring children caring for the home and kids, and being at husbands beck and call,...

and I would totally be lost without my palm pilot, computer, lap top and digital tv. imagine not having psych central to come to...

yup the roaring 20's had its good points but after discovering all the down side in history class, that went on in that ere I am glad to be here in this present time.