• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Was at a nearly sold-out Ghost concert in Houston just last week. Had to wait in an enormous entrance line to get to the pool, the day before that. Grocery store is going to be slammed this weekend, because of all the Labor Day parties. Nearly got trampled in the park by a running club of what had to be a couple hundred people.

      Damn shame nobody goes out anymore.

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        4 hours ago

        People still go out to events like concerts and holiday parties. Far fewer people casually go out to their local bars and coffee shops during the week. I’m pretty sure that’s empirical.

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          4 hours ago

          Far fewer people casually go out to their local bars and coffee shops during the week

          Maybe in aggregate. But I can’t speak to that personally. My neighborhood bar is regularly slammed. There was a line around the block for some novelty tot bag at my local coffee shop.

          Could just be a Houston phenomenon. But this insistence that nobody leaves the house anymore feels more like Internet dogma than fact.

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            2 hours ago

            the downtown area of my home town is totally dead. it used to have a cluster of bars that were always packed, and it’s all just gone now.

            im hearing things about other us cities that my friends are living in, that they’ve all died as our generation has gotten older and the younger generation isn’t interested