It really depends on where you're at and who you're with.
In the US, I remember the insurrections following the trials related to Rodney King, the Branch Dividans being burned to death, and the milita movement blowing up an FBI building (among many other kinds of things).
That doesn't touch the reworking of former areas of the USSR, the first gulf war, and the various issues with asian economies.
I was in high school; it's much easier for me to think that the feelings of stability I felt at the time came from my parent's professional success and the various booms in markets that they were able to capitalize on rather than some more systematic stability...
>In the US, I remember the insurrections following the trials related to Rodney King, the Branch Dividans being burned to death, and the milita movement blowing up an FBI building (among many other kinds of things).
Yes, but those are par for the course throughout modern US history, nothing to write home about (in the sense they wouldn't affect the average citizen anyway, and they'd just be off the news in a month or so).
For the former USSR areas true - was mostly describing US/Western Europe.
Yes, the nineties did feel like a period of stability.
In some countries this went well into 2005 or so.
In others, like the US, I guess 2001 (9/11) was a major turning point.
And after the 2008 crisis, things went downhill faster.