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

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SvennoJ said:

It was, but now I'm stuck in the same cesspool world regardless. Not looking forward to ageing in this world.

Pre-industrial revolution sounds better to me. But then I'm sensitive to any engine noise, central air, too many visual stimuli, too much information vying for my attention all the time. I'm not made for the 'modern' world.

Living in the time of Leonardo Da Vinci sounds appealing to me. 

You know there's a good reason Da Vinci was in high demand to design fortifications, weapons, and military technology to the Italian rulers, right?

Not to mention the Italian peninsula was struck with an outbreak of the plague in 68% of the years between 1348 and 1600...