>>11887271It's generally considered that perhaps the best time do be alive was to be an adult sometime in the late 1800s. I'd say around the 1880s. You're at the peak of technological innovation, modern medicine is starting to come out, there are still even more trad areas outside of the city, you could meet actual interesting people: Cowboys, Confederate Vets, Indians or people who fought them, brothels were still legal, most forms of drugs were still legal, housing and making money were affordable and based on the gold standard, etc.
In all ways imaginable the late 1800s were better than our current time. It had that perfect blend between modernity and tradition. Being an adult in that time (say born in the 1860s) meant that you'd be too old to participate in the disaster that was WW1 only 30 years later, so again best time and age to be alive, 1880.