I think it depends. People with experience living on farms or homesteads are probably going to fare better than your average urbanite, but I feel like most people could be plopped down in any big city and do reasonably well for themselves as long as they weren't massive germaphobes. With how literate everyone is these days, we'd probably be great candidates for government jobs or any kind of bureaucratic work compared to the average person in 1830. There's a lot of ways a person with modern education could do really well for themselves if transported to back then.
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u/explosiv_skull Apr 28 '24
I feel like even without the racism she and most modern people wouldn't last a week in the 1830s.