I most definatly wouldn't mind living in Macross City in 2040.
Being a political science major, I've always wondered how the political end of things worked there. Are there senators, if so where do they come from, etc?
Though I wouldn't mind being on some design team for Shensei Industries or General Galaxy.
And by now Earth is a fortress, and the U.N. Spacy is a force not to be f*cked with at this point so I would have to worry about some Zentreadi ship blowing my ass away with it's main cannon.
Although I wouldn't mind being on the SDF-1 during Space War one, or shortly after that. That whole period of "needing every avaliable man" since with my bad eyes this is probably the only time frame I'd have a good chance of finding myself in a VF (so what if it's cannon fodder, your fighter in Ace Combat is cannon fodder colors) or a Monster. I would also love the see the Grand Cannon fireing.