Nearly everyone you talk to will say the best decades was the one they lived in as a youth. I graduated high school in the 80's so I'm not different. We explored space, the Berlin Wall fell, we had New Wave and heavy metal, the CD was invented (a fancy silver coffee coaster to the youngsters), and it was a good time to be young with world ahead of you. However, there was no internet as we have today, there was lots of racism and homophobia (probably not as much as in the 50's) and of course Reagan.