Ways of living you never want to go back to

smoking on planes / trains / in bars & restaurants.

Yeah thats a good one

Asking for directions abroad or god forbid, using an actual map to get around. Google Maps has changed the game for the better.

Or getting hopelessly lost abroad after having a few scoops. Amsterdam was the worst. Every street looks the same.

Living in the middle of Dublin.

Having a bath once a week and no shower so daily sink washing in a freezing bathroom was required.

Paying in cash and having an annoying haul of little brown coins

Going to nightclubs

Being stranded if your car broke down

Not being able to buy anything out of the ordinary or paying through the nose if you could find it

Trying to drive abroad using a map

Relying on an out of date Lonely Planet book to find your way around a strange city

Having to visit a travel agent (+numerous phone calls) and wait for ages in a queue to book a weeks holiday abroad

Washing in cold water

Having to watch advertisements during a movie.

An outside long drop toilet without heating.

Lockdowns.

I was going to post about the choice. Growing up in rural Ireland if you needed a part for a thing, to be told "The only place you might get that is <one specific shop in Dublin>. I remember the graphics adapter in my Amstrad 464 going sometime in the late 80s, and a trip to Dublin was the only possibility of a replacement part. Now, you just go onto Amazon. If you need something really really obscure, you go onto eBay.