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Quite honestly, I wouldn't want to live back then. Sure, there are upsides to it, but the downsides are pretty large. Medicine was nowhere as advanced as it is now. Hence, life expectancy was pretty short. The quality of life was pretty bad back then too. Lose a limb, you probably wouldn't end up with a prosthetic if you survived the lose of the limb. Don't know if wheelchairs were readily available either. Yeah, the stories sound great, but that is the upside. The stories you hear about the gunslingers, etc are about the equivalent of the stories we hear about the music and movie stars now, and last I checked most of us weren't music or movie stars. We probably would have been farming land or working in a factory just to barely get by. We would work and then come home and do absolutely nothing because there wasn't much to do. On the farm you would go to sleep when the sun went down because it was too costly to have candles on all the time. There were no 40 hour work weeks. There were no unions. There was no such thing as vacation time and sick leave.
How about plumbing and electricity? Try turning those off at your place for a week and see how much life sucks.
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06-20-2006, 12:06 AM
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