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| MVP ![]() Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Pasadena, Md Age: 45
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| 5 years, 5 mile radius, wealth provided: Where would you live I found this an interesting question: A time-travel theoretical | Music | AVQ&A | The A.V. Club Here is the proposition: Where and when would you most want to live for five years, restricted to a five-mile radius? Everyone says things like “Oh man, how cool would it be to be in Dealey Plaza during the JFK assassination, or see The Beatles during one of their Cavern Club concerts, or witness ancient Rome?” Well, what if you were given the chance? Here are the conditions. You’ve been granted a hypothetical ticket to live, in comfort and coherence, during one five-year time period. Maybe you want to be in New York in Chicago during Prohibition, or Victorian London, or France right before the Revolution. (Or during—no judgments.) You’ll be able to understand and speak the language (if needed), have enough disposable cash to live at leisure, and experience whatever you want, with no need for a job. You’ll have a comfy apartment or house to return to, full period wardrobe, and as much time as you need before making this trip to study up on the period you’ll live in. But you must stay within a five-mile radius of where/whenever you choose to live. Thus you can’t go see the Kennedy assassination, then go zipping around the world to London to watch the birth of the British Invasion, or New York for the early years of Greenwich Village. Want to see the Kennedy assassination? Fine. But then you’re stuck in Dallas for the next five years. What historical period (and place), in your opinion, offers the most enticing experiences in one five-year period? Several responses were offered on the website, and I would agree with Philadelphia but the time frame is hard, do I want to see the signing of the declaration, or the ratification of the constitution. I would have to say the intrigue of the ratification of the constitution, and political strides between the article of confederation to the constitution would be it for me. So Philadelphia center city from 1787 to 1792. What sayeth the mob (and where is TTE lately?) |
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| Contains football related knowledge Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Second Star On The Right Age: 50
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| Re: 5 years, 5 mile radius, wealth provided: Where would you live Jerusalem, ~31 CE
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| Mann Up HOF! ![]() Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Hattiesburg, MS
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| Re: 5 years, 5 mile radius, wealth provided: Where would you live Bahamas, year 1492
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| Quietly Dominating the East Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Naples, Florida
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| Re: 5 years, 5 mile radius, wealth provided: Where would you live Giza 2545 BC 5 years before completion of the great pyramid. CHeck out how many.....aliens it took to build
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| Eternally Legendary ![]() Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Seattle Age: 33
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| Re: 5 years, 5 mile radius, wealth provided: Where would you live Monte Carlo, Monaco. Now!
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| The Starter Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: San Diego Ca
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| Re: 5 years, 5 mile radius, wealth provided: Where would you live Rome 37 AD to 42 AD. Caligula threw some wild parties!
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| Gamebreaker Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Waldorf, MD Age: 29
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| Re: 5 years, 5 mile radius, wealth provided: Where would you live compton, ca 88-93
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