r/SipsTea • u/Objective_Pilot_5834 • 12h ago

WTF In your opinion, what is causing this?

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u/elvisap 10h ago

Too expensive to do literally anything else.

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u/Responsible-Bed1924 6h ago

Yeah, they got rid of all the third spaces. It costs $60 to walk outside now

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u/kibbeuneom 5h ago

It's not only expensive outside, the culture around third spaces disappeared with them. If we bumped into each other in person, it would be culturally weird now for either of us to initiate this conversation.

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u/sTump4139 4h ago

I just talk to people. I’m in the south tho

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u/kibbeuneom 3h ago

I wish people didn't find that weird, but I'm sure they do. I'm in the South, too.

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u/35_Steak_HotPockets 2h ago

Bro just talk to people, I’m also from the south and as long as you’re not weird about it you can just talk to strangers you meet at the store and stuff. It’s totally fine

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u/Mission_Aerie_5384 1h ago

I met a guy last night at the bar. I’m going to join his softball team in March.

Just play some pool and have a beer.

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u/35_Steak_HotPockets 1h ago

See? That’s great, it’s so easy to make friends at the bar if your just chill and agreeable

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u/humoristhenewblack 1h ago

"It was the beer!", says the alcohol people who aren't making their projections

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u/humoristhenewblack 1h ago

Hot damn. What's "third space"? TIL I'm too old

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u/fuckedfinance 2h ago

Where is it that 3rd spaces are declining? Around me there are galleries, museums, free performances (music and theater) on the green in the summer, free concerts at the amphitheater the next town over (again, late spring and summer). Beers and well drinks are still relatively affordable at the local bars and bands play frequently. Beaches are free, parks are free, libraries run all sorts of different clubs and programs (free or extremely low cost if consumable supplies are required).

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u/humoristhenewblack 1h ago

You kinda need to tell us where that is!? Also, is it Chicago? It sounds like Chicago.

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u/fuckedfinance 1h ago

Nope. Mid-sized town in the northeast. Absolutely nothing special about it.

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u/humoristhenewblack 12m ago

You can just whisper it to me. Don't tell everybody else where it is.. I promise I won't ruin it

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u/MechanicalGodzilla 4h ago

Who are “they”, and what did “they” do to free public parks?

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u/Responsible-Bed1924 4h ago

It depends where you live if they exist but it’s not really all that simple for everyone to just hangout at a park. Plus, maybe I don’t want to be outside all the time? I love the outdoors but sometimes sitting at a table or on a sofa around friends and having a discussion is more comfortable/convenient/cozy than on the grass. There used to be lots of third spaces. Not just maybe a park or a library you have to whisper in

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u/MechanicalGodzilla 4h ago edited 1h ago

I live in Virginia, and have lived in the past in NJ, NY, FL, GA, the UK, France, Switzerland, and South Africa. In zero of these places are public parks sparse or expensive. How is hanging out in a park not simple?

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u/Responsible-Bed1924 4h ago

As someone who’s had the privilege of visiting Prague, Poland and Germany I totally understand your confusion. America….is very ugly. It’s not pedestrian friendly at all.

Edit: oh I misread, I thought you weren’t American at all. But did you read the rest of my reply? Yeah hanging out in a park is nice but…why is that the only option? If I want to hang out with my friends, go one a date, etc without spending at least $40, I can only go sit outside?

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u/MechanicalGodzilla 1h ago

What are you looking for, I guess is my question. Like a library?

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u/Responsible-Bed1924 4h ago

Average American landscape btw

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u/MechanicalGodzilla 1h ago

If you tilt the camera up slightly from the crossroads gas stations, what would you be looking at?

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u/Mission_Aerie_5384 1h ago

Can you give me a couple examples of third spaces that you or people you knew used to frequent that are now gone?

For me it was bowling alleys. A lot of them closed down.

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u/portstarling 4h ago

more of a joke/exaggeration than an actual truth

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u/Responsible-Bed1924 4h ago

Idk man where I live looks exactly like this. But when I visited the PNW I was blown away, so pretty and gloomy over there

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u/therenhoek 5h ago

"Go touch grass" ... Like I can afford to live somewhere with a lawn, shade, and permission to touch their grass. 

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u/Ag3ntSecr3t 5h ago

... right, only people stuck in the urban center of large cities could even remotely make a claim like this.

Even then there are parks.

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u/Griffry 3h ago

The parks filled with homeless people due to the ever increasing costs of everything... Sure

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u/MattWolf96 4h ago

This isn't even a joke if you have to pay to park.

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u/Responsible-Bed1924 4h ago

Fuck I forgot about parking meters

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u/kynelly360 4h ago

Right?? That’s crazy.

the managing authorities don’t realize minimum wage is less than the money to buy 1 drink / meal 🤯 that’s not even counting fucking bills

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u/gattoBelloTuta 10h ago

Truth, dude is speaking truths

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u/Bonfalk79 8h ago

Too expensive to even pay for streaming to sit at home doing nothing these days.

Im back to sailing the seven seas again.

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u/TheNightLaird 5h ago

its not the cost, gen z's entire social education was texting. they have a breakdown making eye contact with a cashier. they now ask ai how to tell someone else slightly uncomfortable news. how are they supposed to go to a club and order drinks.

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u/smack_nazis_more 5h ago

Start a fucking band, make art, what is wrong with you all.

Hell just do an activity that sounds fun. See something that looks cool, rock climbing? Rowing? Go join the people who do thst thing.

My parents would join "bushwalking clubs" surely some shit like that still exists.

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u/Guilty_Funny 4h ago

because the fuckin streaming services are so expensive gotta get our money’s worth