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I've always felt drawn to the late 1800s period. I dunno why. It just looks really cool to me.
I’ve thought about that too and it looks cool with the women in hoop skirts and the men in long waistcoats and top hats. But when you consider the high mortality rate and lack of conveniences, I’ll pass. There was this series called Manor House in which a modern family went to live at an English country estate exactly like in Edwardian times, and it turned out that the only one who really liked it was the lord & master.
You're in love with the Hollywood version of the 19th Century. Even the supposedly grittiest versions of that period bear little relation to the reality of what life was like back then.
Just one small example: By 1900 in the USA, there was one horse for every three people. It's estimated that in 1900, horses working in New York city produced 2.5 million pounds of shit every _day_. During dry periods, this shit was pulverised by hooves, wheels and shoes and turned into dust that blew around and got literally everywhere. When it was wet, streets were covered in horse-shit slurry. When it was warm and humid, millions of flies bred in the shit and spread diseases and food poisoning bacteria. And at all times, the city reeked of horse-shit - along with all the other smells of stinky industries that were allowed to operate in urban areas, food going bad due to lack of refrigeration, people smelling due to less than fastidious personal hygiene and the expense and hassle of washing clothing regularly, and so on.
If you imagine living in some idyllic rural setting back then, you should bear in mind that, prior to the discovery of antibiotics, people died very painful deaths after something as trivial as a little cut on a finger got infected and turned septic.
Life was hard. Even for rich people life was hard back then. No air conditioning. No anesthesia for surgery. Before surgery they'd give you a whiskey bottle and tell you to get ready. But on the other hand if you were not a slave you had more freedoms. They did not care if you grew weed. If you wanted to take opiates you could buy them at the store. Very little regulations on anything as long as you didnt rape, steal, or murder you would be good. Even murder was seen as acceptable under circumstances. Like someone calling you a coward and challenging you to a fight to some kind of duel.
If you want that kind of life its still like that in many places in Mexico. Mexico is like the wild wild west