If you lived in 1900,

Very good chance is that I would have been on the same family farm in the Catskills,
Living about the same as I was in my early teens.... except no tractor or electricity....
 
I usually find myself on the side of the underdog. I believe in equality for all races and genders - so - I would probably have been a banner carrying suffragette, chaining myself to railings, possibly breaking a couple of windows lol, stopping traffic to get the job done!
 

I'd be John D. Rockefellers son. At 16 in 1900 I'd spend on whatever luxuries good old dad would let me.
 
In 1900 I would have preceded my father's birth by 30 years so I would probably have been in some kind of time warp.
 
Hopefully, I'd be living on my great-grandparent's farm in North Carolina. I'd be walking barefoot to school and not putting on my shoes until I got there. I'd be swimming in the "branch" in the summer and sledding down a hill in winter. I'd be surrounded by a large loving multi-generational family, with even more from town descending on the farm every Sunday for "dinner".

There were several houses on the farm, so children were welcomed in any door. If it really does take a village to raise a child, that would have been mine.
 
I was a good baseball player in my time but too small to turn pro or semi pro. However in the year 1900 I would be considered of normal height and strength. If I could go back in time, I'd play semi pro ball as we had many semi pro leagues in my hometown of Brooklyn, NY in those days.
 
Possibly I'd have been on the family farm in Melrose in the Scottish borders, but then maybe I'd have made a break for it and gone to Edinburgh to study science or medicine.

If I happened to be living at my present location, I'd be glad that the building work to the 'modern' extension (started in1898) was finally complete and I lived with my parents in one of the more imposing houses in the village. I'd be a teacher in one of the two village schools and on holidays, I'd visit local fairs and games in the surrounding villages, possibly to strike up a relationship with a young lady (a farmer's daughter perhaps?).
 

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