Times and places you wish you lived

Times and places you wish you lived

>ywn be a young author living in Vienna when it was the cultural capital of Europe, slumming about in the coffehauses & chainsmoking cigarettes

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>ywn be a young author living in Vienna when it was the cultural capital of Europe, slumming about in the coffehauses & chainsmoking cigarettes
Well, at least I won't be conscripted into ww1. Still feels sad desu.

>Tfw you will never be an aide to Augstus or Agrippa, recording everything while they turned Rome from a city of brick to a city of marble

>Ywn be a wealthy pleb with a loving wife, a strong son, and a beautiful daughter living under the stable rule of Antoninus Pius

Sparta

>chill with bros all day
>basically paid to lift and stay in shape
>get to travel to around ancient greece and compete with other athletes in the original olympics
>have headstrong fit spartan waifu

>chill with bros

>have headstrong fit spartan waifu
You were never allowed to spend time with your wife in Sparta

>you will never have to live in some shitty pre-21st-century shithole without all the wonders of the modern world

Feels amazing senpai

Debated depending on the source e.g. Xenophon (one of the few written sources who actually lived with the Spartans) makes no mention of it.

Also

>not wanting some nohomo homosex after a hard day of murdering persians and helots.

Fucking fag

This. Reminder Platonic dick sucking isnt gay. Just a pure expression of friendship. Don't be a fag.

>ywn be a french coal miner in the mid 19th century living in the squalid company town and toiling for pitiful wages in backbreaking conditions but in your time underground a romance blossoms between you and one of the young supple girls whose skin is bleached a delicate white from spending all the daylight hours underground who works by your side and after many stolen glances and coy smiles shared between you in the depths of the earth you take her out in the field after work one day and fill her up with plenty of babies to supplement your meager income and begin the cycle of misery anew

>ywn be a french (retail worker) in the (early 21st) century living in the squalid company town and toiling for pitiful wages in (altering boring) conditions but in your time (insides 'Staples') a romance blossoms between you and one of the young supple girls whose skin is bleached a delicate white from spending all the daylight hours (in the back of the building) who works by your side and after many stolen glances and coy smiles shared between you in the depths of the (warehouse building sharing a cigarette) you take her out in the field after work one day and fill her up with plenty of babies to supplement your meager income and begin the cycle of misery anew.
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Hawai'i pre-European contact

>overabundance of healthy, tropical food in proportion to population size
>labor limited to sailing and fishing
>great weather
>hula waifu

>ywn be a greek sailor at the height of the roman empire

Wait how the fuck did they get thru without a Suez

Don't forget the part where you fuck your bro's thighs.

>Ywn witness the submission of the Gauls to the greatest civilization to ever exist.

>ywn live before modern medicine, sanitation and cuisine.
Feels fucking fantastic.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal#History

>yfw you were born just in time to experience the height of petrol civilization just before the oil crisis of the 2030s and the subsequent contraction of 99% of the human population through disease, religious war, starvation, and general chaos and chimpouts

Well, since Siberia is going to thaw out due to global warming, I seriously doubt that'll happen.

They went from the red sea coast to Indian. Then they used caravans to get to the nile

Haven't you heard? Fears about Peak Oil are being replaced with anxiety about "Peak Demand", that the demand for oil is going to top out because of cheap renewables in the near future.

Really? I don't know if you're trolling or not but that's amazing if that's the case.

>ywn be a comfy as fuck middle class merchant in Venice at it's peak

>you will never enjoy the spoils of war

>You will never live in the Greek Bactrian complex learning at the feet of Tantriks, Buddhists, Platonists, and Zoroastrians.

>You will never particpate in the Pala Empire's state funded debates between Saivism and Buddhism.

>You will never study at the Medici's Neoplatonic Academy.

>trap's thighs

>Ywn witness the submission of the Gauls to the greatest civilization to ever exist.
>the greatest civilization to ever exist.

>Rome
>Greatest
Really?

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>fwn be a german living in Berlin before the great war, drinking beer with your buds and watching the prussians march in full glory

There used to be another canal there. It was called the Pharaohs' canal or something.