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The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America Miserable (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] 105 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Going out requires a car. Money to park a car, money for the event itself, money for drinks, money for games, money for food. THEN you can have fun. If you're broke too bad.

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  • [–] 27 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Yeah, there's a place I wanted to go last night, but not only is it a two hour round trip, I have to pay for gas and mileage. So I stayed home.

    We've really fucked ourselves as a society, building infrastructure that requires everyone to be wealthy.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    America used to be wealthy, and developed a culture that expected that. Then more and more of the wealth was funneled into fewer and fewer hands. If America had maintained and grew its distributive structures, the impacts would still be a problem but the basic elements of survival wouldn't feel so difficult to obtain.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    walks are free though.

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  • [–] 22 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    There isn't anywhere to walk (safely) in my city. We don't even have a park. Never mind a severe lack of sidewalks. This city was founded in the 60s and the car-brain really shows in its planning :/

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    In 100F weather? No thanks.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    Yeah. I posted a little while ago about trying to get my town to plant more trees because my god there are entire streets that might as well be a desert with how little shade they have. It’s unbearable to walk anywhere if it gets to be anywhere near 80+.

    I’m slowly making tiny bits of progress since then, but nothing concrete. I emailed multiple gov reps/officials and got no response. However, my mom just happened to run into the chief of staff or whatever for the town’s supervisor at a concert at a park, who is apparently sympathetic and said we could talk with him sometime. He said they had a tree program and were planting what they thought were trees that wouldn’t disrupt the sidewalks but when that didn’t work out they just gave up.

    I’m gonna try emailing him with some more info on options to avoid root damage and see if this can get anywhere.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    This is something my friend group does. We’re lucky to have some good parks and walking trails nearby and we just put in some good shoes and walk around. It’s good to catch up with them and we tend to run into the occasional deer or bunny or dogs on walks

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