re: Youths complaining about a lack of "third places" lately

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In the US; "Third Places", especially free "third places", tend to attract a certain element that make them "Bad Places" in short order.

Europe and Asia have less of those elements

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America is a big country and there's lots of places that don't have many of them. No one is forcing you to live in the south

You're right that the places do exist and people just don't go to them. As a 20something myself though, there's just nothing to DO at these places. Maybe this is a generational disconnect, but eating and drinking is not an activity. Why would I drive to a brewery and spend a lot of money on drinks to watch TV when I can spend way less money on drinks and watch TV for free in my house? It's a cost/benefit thing that doesn't work out.

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Youths complaining about a lack of "third places" lately

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one of those things that has some validity but *they* make it gay and whiny

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Young people lament that society is collapsing because they don't have another place to gather in anymore.

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bullshite. I’m not really youth I’m 33 but I meet my buddies at the local Mexican restaurant bar every week for afternoon drinks and to watch football/basketball/etc because it has several TVs at the bar

This is why I like to spend time alone in the woods

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they just mean there's nowhere for them to drop their kids off and become someone else's responsibility. It's the same reason why bad kids hardly ever miss school.

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My wife is an elementary school teacher. This is the 100% truth. Hell, they show up on holidays. LOL

I need a list of places to go around here. I just moved back and have no idea what is going on.

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Maybe this is a generational disconnect, but eating and drinking is not an activity.

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Must be a generational thing because, to me, [a] yes it is and [b] you're typically visiting with others which is the activity.

Presumably, young people enjoy visiting with each other considering they communicate via phone so much.. so why different in person?

As for eating and drinking, it's nice to eat food you don't cook at home and it's nice to sip a drink someone else made. It's nice to be out in public people watching and chatting.

(Welcome home, iluv!)

Going out to bars for the 35 and older crowd isn’t as prevalent as it was in late 90’s and early 2000’s.

You’d see way more people older than 35 and well into their early 50’s at The Station, Sullivan’s, Triple A, Southdowns, Caterie, etc.

You rarely see people in this age group out at bars like you once did.

In the 90's and early 2000's we had bars in Jackson where it was filled with 20 and 30 somethings. Rodeos, The Dock, Fire, Millenium, and others. Actually had ladies nights on Wed or Thursday nights and girls planned around it .

No such thing anymore here. They might hang at Fondren Public and North Tavern and that's it . Nothing like it used to be. Three things I think ruined it. Covid, smoking bans, and damn phones and their apps.