Hell, the strength of our currency back in those decades was enough reason to want to live in them. I’d be even more wealthy than I am if I’d been in my twenties during the fifties.
Of course, the hippie generation and Vietnam probably would’ve put a crimp on my life.
I didn't quite make 20 in the 1950s but I was so lucky as to become a teenager in that decade (born in 1940). Believe me, it was a great time to be an American in that decade. OldPossum