If the hypothetic question is something like:
What was it like to live abroad?
What was prison like?
How hectic was your summer camp?
Please specify the grammar of the answer. Past perfect or present perfect, why does it qualify for one and not the other?
Best Answer
The questions are all about the completed past (nothing carrying on into the present), so your answer must be, too. But you need not use the perfect; any past will do.
All are about the past, and so they all work.