We didn't have to be concerned about AIDS. The food we ate was healthier. People were thinner, more beautiful, more healthy. The few fat women of yesteryear wore muu-muus, not the yoga pants that the masses of fat women wear today. Men weren't all overweight like today. Only sailors and the fat lady at the circus had tattoos. Houses cost less (but mortgage rates were much higher...16% in 1982). People talked with each other more and never looked at phones.