re: How long would you survive in the 1980s?

Great music, cheap gas, not having to be connected to everyone through social media, Reagan as President, economy was good, less Gov't intervention, no ongoing war.

Hell I'd prefer the 80's to right now..and I was born in 1991.

I'd absolutely LOVE to go back to the 80s. It was an incredible decade to grow up in as a kid.

Atari
Nintendo
Pop music was a billion times better than now and you had the legendary 60s and 70s artists still making great music
Sitcoms were better
No embarrassingly bad reality TV
Great horror movies (that current directors are all remaking now)
Great great adventure movies (Indiana Jones, Star Wars, ET, Goonies, Ghostbusters, and many more)
kids still played outside.
Great economy under Reagan
Demoncrats and Republicans got along fairly well.
SNL was great in the last half of the decade.
No home grown terrorism concerns
The world seemed much less dangerous despite the Cold War.
No 24 hour news stations (MSNBC, Fox, CNN was just starting)

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Atari

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I loved Frogger.

ETA: My early childhood (2-11) was the 80's, and I loved it.

Aside from Reagan as President, the 80's were pretty much perfect.

Yeah, 4 more years of Carter and 4 years of Mondale would have been MUCH better.

The 80s were the perfect decade to be a kid imho. You had enough technology to be comfortable but not so much that it overwhelmed your day to day life like it can now.

I already survived 5 years

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Sitcoms were better

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Ridiculously false.

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Yeah, 4 more years of Carter and 4 years of Mondale would have been MUCH better.

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Whose to say what would have happened. Not to turn this into a political debate, but I'll just say Reagan was one of our worst Presidents.

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Survived... barely. Way too much ecstasy and it was legal for a short time.

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Were you big in to the gay dance club scene in Dallas back then? I heard some dude tell me that the majority of ecstasy in the country was distributed through Dallas back then.

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Gen X mofookers

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GenXers rule!!!

No discussion of the 80s is complete without Michael Jackson, Madonna, t-shirts that said "Party Naked", Rubik's cubes, Smurfs (the original ones), the Sugarhill Gang, roller skating, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, John Hughes movies, Video Killed the Radio Star (bonus points if you know what that is and the artist!) Little Kings, Bartles & James, parachute pants (bad), The Preppy Handbook (bad), mullets (very bad), Valley Girls (awful), Pac-Man, bonfires on the river bank, cruising levy roads with Alabama or some hair band blasting on the radio, and making out with your boyfriend in the dugouts of the baseball field. Maybe that was just my home town though.