Yes, life was a lot more simpler then then it is today. people were far less stressed out than than today, because they had none of the distractions that were supposedly designed to bring people together, but instead has driven them further apart more than ever before. And they had a chance to hear themselves think, as it were, without being distracted by today's noise-filled, smog-filled society. There was a lot more wide and open spaces then, too, because much of American society was still very much ruralized, even in the inner cities; There wasn't too much urbanization then, there were few tall buildings, the tallest buildings were no more than six stories high. Much taller buildings, to become know as "skyscrapers"-a term that is still used to this day-would begin to appear in the World War years onwards.