Life in BC in the Good Old Days was Better

by Mike Coates
FBP
How many times can you remember your grandparents or parents droll on about the good old days when living was much simpler, when the roles of men and women were defined, and when family consisted of 3 and sometimes 4 generations living in "harmony" under the same roof?

Well there maybe some truth to what your grandparents and parents were saying about life in the good old days. According to an article written by Lucy Kellaway for Intelligent Life Magazine the best time to have lived in British Columbia was C.10,000 - 15,000BC years ago. According to Kellaway;

"Everyone was self-employed, with women toiling away at one of life’s nicest pastimes: digging up roots and picking berries. The great thing about foraging was that it didn’t take all day, and so left more time for enjoyment than humans have had at any time since. In the absence of iPads and PlayStations, people frittered away their time on three pleasures that the modern age does not encourage: chatting, playing with children and having sex with more than one person. When Larkin said that sexual intercourse began in 1963, it was a good line, just several thousand years out."

When our children become grandparents I wonder what they will say about their good old days to their grandkids?

Source: The Best Time: America, C. 15,000BC, Intelligent Life magazine Nov/Dec 2011