I wouldn't want to go too far back, because the past is a nasty, brutal place. Go more than a few decades back, and you'll probably get some debilitating disease like polio that they don't innoculate against in the present. Medical technology is primitive, the information technology infrastructure is all but nonexistent, there's racism, there's the threat of nuclear war, modern conveniences are nowhere to be found or priced so high only the rich can afford them, environmental and health standards are much lower, et cetera. As a middle class person today, my standard of living must be comparable to that of the very rich in the 1970s by any number of measures.

I chose the '80s, because I lived through them the first time, and I'd probably survive a second go-round. I also think that viewing my formative decade through adult eyes would help me better understand myself in a way that temporal tourism to some alien decade wouldn't. Or maybe I just want to get all those Masters of the Universe figures my mom sold at garage sales and lock them away somewhere safe. (sniff) Terror-claw Skeletor, where are you?