I've never been nostalgic to the 70s. I like some of the fashion and wore my mom's my 70s jacket. And I wore the shit out of that platform shoes. But that's it. I thought that the 70s were drab to live in.

I'm from Germany so in the 70s and 80s there was always UdSSR and the cold war looming. We had a homegrown terror group that were mostly young people.. My parents always told stories that they had to close the windows when they talked about them in order not be accused being and sympathizer.

Vehicles were a moped and a bike at best for teens. You can still get your driver's license at 18 so no cars and even if you were 18 and managed to get a driver's license, cars were expensive in relation to household income. So you'd be lucky to even have one at home and that doesn't even guarantee that you can drive it if you wanted to.

School was much more rigid in that it was harder to aquire higher education and a university degree. Education was related to household income and household education itself. So if your father was working at that steel plant you had a more than 90% chance that you end up there too. So you basically left school at 14 or 15 and started vocational training. If you dreamt of going to university and study something that you were good at in school, dream on. You can earn money. There's a high chance your family can't afford to send you to university.

But maybe that's just my parents perspective and my parents were both of working class families.

Women's rights were in its infancy and don't even get me started on that during that time.