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Oh, of course. Rich and of the right gender and ethnicity and you could have a grand old time - maybe not as grand in most ways as today, unless you have a craving for an army of slaves to wait on you hand and foot.
But hell, propping up your feet and getting fed cooked dormice and lead-sweetened wine in a fancy villa with central heating as a wealthy Roman in the 2nd century AD, or having sorbet on a nice summer day and chilling in a palace with windcatchers cooling the place as a Persian noble in the 7th century AD, or getting absolutely blasted on 'medicinal' opiates and cocaine in your massive private garden with a personal hermit for aesthetics as a Victorian gentleman in the 19th century AD probably ain't so bad.
Still would prefer communication quicker than the post and modern vaccines, but at least there, the wealth fantasy, I get some of the appeal.