If you could choose to have been born in a different time, would you, and if so, when and why?

[Farsala]

Going back would be terrible in almost all eras. But I suppose post WWII wouldn't be bad, maybe 1956 born to avoid the Vietnam War draft. Baby Boomer America wouldn't be bad. If I could choose a different country, then Japan's technological/ economical boom would be interesting, so a 1960s or 1970s birth wouldn't be bad. But still I couldn't enjoy all the restaurants/arcades and such with smoking not being banned. Even in mid 2010s I experienced smoking in restaurants in Japan, not fun.