A little historical context: Faith Popcorn [yes, that’s her monicker] and the concept of “cocooning”, introduced in the 1980s.
America is becoming a nation of homebodies
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Re: America is becoming a nation of homebodies
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> One of the big reasons is that bars are dead. I only ever knew one guy who was a regular bar patron. He lost his license for DWI and was hit by a drunk driver while bicycling home. Our peers all had parties and crashed where we were. Bars always felt like a TV-Only thing. Like self-cleaning houses. Like making 40k/yr in LA and affording bars and nice housing.
Everywhere I've lived I've had no problems finding a local. Most recent regular was a pub in an Irish neighborhood, staffed by Irish people (honestly a much better experience than "Irish" pubs), 4 bucks for a beer, and that's in an expensive city. Though it can be easy to overlook the sort of hole in the wall places that function as the final holdouts with locals that have been going there for decades. I think it hel…
Well, yeah. I know bars exist. I tried to buy one once. And it seems to follow that people go there.
I belatedly recall that I had a friend who went to gay bars until aids did him in. It was early days. I think that's everyone. No wait. My brother did bars. He's dead too. Now I think that's everyone.
I knew lots and lots and lots of junkies, chronic alcoholics, daily drug users and teetotalers. I knew more people who made PCP than went to bars.
FWIW, I drank for 14 years but quit when I was turned 22.