Cramped. There weren't a lot of opportunities to have a better life than the one we'd always known. Not unless you were some sort of science genius, or mechanical genius. Everyone had jobs to help keep the Ark running, and they weren't all great. The population was limited by law, since we only had so much space. We'd never felt grass before. Never had fresh air, never felt the rain.
I liked imagining what their lives would have looked like, where they lived. It was nothing like anything I'd ever known. They invented so much during that time. The early philosophers had a lot to say about politics and ethics, and how society should run.