When would you want to live?

If you could live at any time, in the past, or in the future, when would it be and why?

For me at least there are two answers to this, and they are both extremes.

My first answer would be "I would like to have lived about 35,000 years ago". I would have loved to be a hunter-gatherer, to be able to travel through a sparsely populated land carrying with me all that I owned. Wrapped in pelts, mukluks on my feet, a stone tipped spear in my right hand and all my stone tools, stone axe, fire starting kit, and leftovers from last nights dinner wrapped in leaves, in a fur satchel slung over my left shoulder. To be able to travel the wilderness afoot, through the primeval forest, not knowing what I would see, or whom I would meet, over the next rise. Meeting unusual tribes of people as I went, and learning their customs. This would be my ideal life. I am a fan of the "Earths Children" series of books written by Jean M. Auel. Many people know the first book "The Clan of the Cave Bear" because of the movie by the same title staring Daryl Hannah. For me the best book in the series was the second one "the Valley of Horses". In that book, 'Ayla', the 'cave girl' main character, had been cast out of her clan, and was living by herself, in her own valley. It also had a running side story of 'Jondalar', who was to become Ayla's mate, taking a ritual journey throughout ancient Europe, and how they would eventually meet. This kind of lifestyle has always been very appealing to me.

My second answer would be completely opposite. I would like to live about 500 hundred years in the future. I could imagine myself having a small interstellar scout vessel, traveling the stars beyond the mapped, 'civilized' regions of space our people will (hopefully) be living in then. To go and visit new worlds, once again, not knowing what I would see, or whom I would meet, over the next rise (ok, so there's no "rise" in space, just work with me alright!). Finding new civilizations, and meeting new intelligent species all along the way.

Both of these answers, for me, have one thing in common and that is 'New Frontiers'. We are living in a time that is quite possible the worst for me. All the land has been explored, very large areas of wilderness are becoming fewer and far between, the only frontiers left on Earth are the oceans, which at our present technology are difficult and expensive at best to live in, and we are just beginning to explore space. I think there are many people out there who yearn for a new frontier, pristine, and untouched by man, for them, and for myself, those are definitely better times to be alive.