Well, if you aren't a white that pretty much rules out any period before 1998, and if you are a woman any period before 1980 is bound to be terrible. If you are a white male you have to consider how much better looking women are now than in the past, especially if you go back past 1955 or so. Also there was a period in europe where there were all kinds of wars and trade disputes over pepper, which means food was either terrible or doused in pepper. Also language becomes a problem in that you wont be able to understand anyone from the 17th century back, or you will have difficulty doing it and they will have problems understanding you. Also, you have to understand that in the past they didn't have the internet, you wouldn't be able to listen to any music you wanted to or watch any show/movie you wanted to at anytime, but they did have famines in plagues on biblical scales. basically i would go back a few years before the recent stock market crash and prosper and then get out at the right time and if you choose to do anything differently from that you are retarded. i guess if you are gay you might want to check out the scene before aids hit, but then you'd have to deal with even more discrimination and the aids epidemic that also followed the good years.