What was the coolest decade of the 20th century to live in?

[Josephus]

Most of you are too young to have remembered teh 80s for how truly awesome they were.

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In the 1980s I moved to Canada. I finished high school. Finished university. Got laid for the first time. Started working. Quite the decade.

Still picked the 60s though. They're probably romanticized now, but it seems to me they were a good decade from what I've read, and seen in Oliver Stone films. 

[jimmy olsen]

Assuming no medical issues, I'd say the 80s.

[The Brain]

1954-1963

Cool jazz, Rat Pack, smoking was in, guys wore suits and thin ties to parties, and the ladies still wore gloves.
Yeah, daddyo.

Yup.

But I voted 1910s, if you can stay out of WW1 it is just a fantastically cool era, and I'd include the early 20s in that decade.

And you'd be wrong.

[dps]

Still picked the 60s though. They're probably romanticized now, but it seems to me they were a good decade from what I've read, and seen in Oliver Stone films. 

Never believe anything you see in an Oliver Stone film.

[Siege]

Chosing a decade in the 20th century is just chosing between diferent wars.

[grumbler]

Never believe anything you see in an Oliver Stone film.

QFT

Now, the 60s of From the Earth to the Moon was real.

[grumbler]

Chosing a decade in the 20th century is just chosing between diferent wars.

Not outside Israel.  Outside israel, we had culture, and wars were interruptions in the developments of culture.

[saskganesh]

90's over 80's.

[alfred russel]

1954-1963

Cool jazz, Rat Pack, smoking was in, guys wore suits and thin ties to parties, and the ladies still wore gloves.
Yeah, daddyo.

Yup.

But I voted 1910s, if you can stay out of WW1 it is just a fantastically cool era, and I'd include the early 20s in that decade.

The first five things that come to mind with the 1910s are:

WWI
Spanish Flu
Revolutions
Economic Recession/Depression
The Titanic

Even if you take out that minor detail we call WWI, it was still a crappy decade. The Armenians in particular are offended by your vote. 

[Valmy]

People during most of the century tended to look back on the Edwardian Age as the 'good old days' so they must have been awesome...so long as you were a white guy I guess.

[alfred russel]

People during most of the century tended to look back on the Edwardian Age as the 'good old days' so they must have been awesome...so long as you were a white guy I guess.

This may be a cop out, but in those days I'd probably be close to the end of my life expectancy, probably wouldn't have a car, possibly not electricity, definately no TV, and may be stuck using an outhouse. We also didn't have legal birth control.

I tend to think that just because of improvements in technology and general living standards that the later decades are the only viable options.

[ulmont]

I tend to think that just because of improvements in technology and general living standards that the later decades are the only viable options.

[PDH]

I don't think I would want to live in a decade before penicillin...

[Josquius]

Woah, we have a lot of lurkers....