Over the last say 150 years what was the best/favorite decade. Please provide reasoning for your choice. Yes they all have good and bad parts, please don’t let this devolve into telling people how they are wrong

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    8 months ago

    I don’t know. I live in Slovakia, so it doesn’t seem like there’s much to choose from (but then again, I don’t know much about history). Perhaps either 1930s or 2010s.
    Let’s take it apart.
    1870s - 1900s - Oppression by Hungarians
    1910s - WW1
    1920s - Strongly affected by WW1
    1930s - Mostly recovered from WW1. Searching online, it seems 1930s could have been pretty good here. At least in cities. Though we do have the end of 1939, but for the most part, it seems fine.
    1940s - WW2, start of Soviet era
    1950s - 1980s - Soviet era
    1990s - Huge increase in criminality after Czechoslovakian president Vaclav Havel gave amnesty to most prisoners. Thankfully I didn’t have to be alive during those times, I’ve heard well enough about 90s.
    2000s - Things start to calm down here. Also things like internet were getting quite popular, and haven’t yet enshittified.
    2010s - Not that bad, which is better than negative.
    2020s - COVID-19, war between Ukraine and Russia splitting people and adding a ton of hate (usually towards Ukraine for some reason). But it’s still just 2024, maybe something improves, though I don’t feel like it.