Youths complaining about a lack of "third places" lately

Your mom likes it in her third place.

Adults have a bar and that's that.

Go to Europe. Every neighborhood has a pub or beer garden within two blocks. You can't throw a dead cat and not hit one.

I wish we had that here, outside of New Orleans, so I wouldn't have to drive home from mine.

Maybe they are referring to places affected by cultcha?

Ex: Super Bowl Championship Celebrations

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third places get turned to absolute shite by the public.

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This is the main issue. Most people are trash now and have no respect for other people or their property.

I think it's more a problem with technology and society. Everyone is so unapproachable these days. People have their faces buried in their phones and/or ear buds in their ears.

People in public places all put out this vibe that says "leave me the frick alone" most of the time.

I'm sure third places are not quite as prominent as they used to be, but mostly I'm with you. They're there. The younger generations just don't go.

Bar I went to last night was packed to the gills. Just with older people who enjoy bars and not younger people who never got into them.

I definitely could see private clubs/country clubs on the decline. The place we go is absolutely BEGGING young people to join, to the point where I doubt you even need to be sponsored by a member anymore. Young people just aren't as interested in that stuff for fun, and even young professionals aren't as concerned with rubbing elbows outside of work hours.

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because they don't have another place to gather in anymore.

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As the stare at their phones,text but never actually "talk" to anybody, stay inside online, do nothing but play video games as a kid (except Braxxson & Jaxxson of course), and celebrate allowing criminals to run free and trash the once nice public spaces....

rant over....

NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!

The brewery boom was great for this. Packed with singles, families, etc.

Often outside, and often with little to do other than socialize with neighbors.

ETA: And they're often unremarkable or even dumpy, which makes them completely unattractive to the crowds that end up exchanging gunfire in the parking lot. In the Southeast, the flashier the communal space, the more likely it'll be on the nightly news. People from other parts of the country don't understand this at all.

Gyms are always good. If you want to avoid culcha, you just have to go to one expensive enough to keep undesirables out. Those $10/month places will be covered up in thugs just there to play basketball and cause problems.

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There are places like this all over every town in America. It’s called a church.

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On the decline thanks to our society’s insistence on secularism.