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Old 07-26-2015, 09:36 AM
 
Location: Central IL
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Sure, if I could be a housewife with no kids!

Knowing it's only 5 years is much better than having no way out...which would be depressing given the opportunities open to women then.

But, without the responsibilities of paid work on top of everything else, 5 years in the '50's would be fine by me.
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Old 07-26-2015, 09:43 AM
 
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Actually, I would not take it. I love my current life and the people in it far too much.
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Old 07-26-2015, 10:03 AM
 
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Yes, it couldn't be any more difficult than the life I live now.. When are you paying ?
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Old 07-26-2015, 10:45 AM
 
Location: Las Vegas
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Sure I would. As a matter of fact, I would be willing to stay there. I could do great things with knowledge of the future and 10M to invest!
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Old 07-26-2015, 12:00 PM
 
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Confused as to why the 1950s was chosen and only for women?
OP do you not know much of this decade? Many people in retirement homes speak quite fondly of the time period.
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Old 07-26-2015, 12:11 PM
 
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Jim Crow would love to have women, and everybody else, return to the 50s.
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Old 07-26-2015, 12:13 PM
 
Location: California
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Yes! Especially if I knew what I know now and could jump on all the emerging stuff of the future first Even without that knowledge it wouldn't be hard since I wouldn't know any different.
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Old 07-26-2015, 12:27 PM
 
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will successful candidate be kept current on what is going on in time period they will be returning to???? We all have an idea now of what the 50s were like, but no idea what 5 years forward will be
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Old 07-26-2015, 12:32 PM
 
Location: Location: Location
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I already did. I lived through all of the '50s and had three children in that decade. And I didn't get ten cents, never mind $10,000,000.
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Old 07-26-2015, 01:11 PM
 
Location: Northridge/Porter Ranch, Calif.
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The one big smudge on that period, as I recall, is the Cold War, and the fear that the US would be the target of nuclear bomb strike from Russia.
It didn't seem to bother my relatives. They did the same things they always did... worked, went to the movies, went bowling, went to restaurants, socialized, etc.

Modern terrorism, which actually has happened, is more of a threat than during the Cold War years.
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