Your post resonates a lot with me. Sometimes I look back to the 70s and think: "wow, things were so cheap back then, jobs were so plentiful, what I would give to go back to a time like that!"
And then I hear about the normalised abuse that took place if you weren't a rich white kid with happy parents, and I think... hmm, maybe the best time to exist is the time that I am in right now, flaws and all.