Today is just fine. Even 30 years ago cancer would have killed me at 34. I love modern medicine. People tend to romanticize the past. Like said before carrying water and non stop need for firewood is an issue most would have trouble contending with nowadays. People also forget that if you weren't rich you lived in the dark basically until the mid 1800's when candles became remotely cheap. Candles were expensive and reserved for the wealthy before that. people would bundle certain weeds and dry them in the summer to have light sources for the winter months. Window tax was very common under English kings because of lighting. More windows in your house = more tax. So if you were poor your house was lit by the cooking fire and you had as few windows as possible.
Last edited by k20350; 12/21/20.
