The future might suck big time esp. the near future like 25-50 years from now. I wouldn't want to go back too far in time where you wouldn't have things like electricity and indoor plumbing....so that's only like 100 years ago , when most homes and such were wired.
I would choose to have been born during WW2 or 20 years earlier than I was, say 1943. I'd of course be too young for the Korean war. i'd be a kid in the 1950's, graduate HS around 1960, hopefully making me old enough to avoid a free trip to Vietnam in a few years time. I think living in the 60's as a young man would have been a blast and by 1960 you'd have most modern items except computers.
You'd have a nice childhood ( IMO) , be an adult in the sixties, still get to see some of the modern shit like computers as an old man and be about 70 now as you get closer to death as the country turns into complete SHIT !
1943 would be the year I'd like to have been born, or a couple of years earlier to avoid being drafted into Vietnam if that number works better.
No way would I want to go way back in time permanently. Life would suck in like 1700 even if you were wealthy.