Maybe they can go to the malt shop later? And then the sock hop?

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      768 months ago

      They don’t really exist anymore. 3rd places have more or less been killed off.

      You must now own a car and pay money to exist somewhere, at all times.

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        We have 8 animals and alcoholic relative living with us.

        We went to the local library, I had ear buds and my laptop as was content to do my thing (cyber security stuff, all legal) and my wife was busy talking to the person running the 3D printer because she can’t seem to dial hers in settings wise.

        The quiet, the lack of stress, the ability to just focus on something without dealing with an issue for a while…

        It was fine until the relative… well, thats another story. They all end like that lately.

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        18 months ago

        Teen centers are in suburbs, for that exact reason. I think everyone saying “teen centers don’t exist” just don’t live in suburbs, nor have teenagers lol

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      98 months ago

      The closest thing I’ve ever seen to a teen center was a sports facility that had a room for kids and teens to hang out, but that was closer to a babysitting service. Paired with the facts that you had to pay monthly membership dues ($25 to $100/mo these days, apparently) and the whole facility was meant for something else entirely, it’s not something I would first describe as a teen center. Not any more than I’d call a high school a chemical R&D facility just because of its chemistry classroom.

      Outside of that one room, I’m not aware of anything else nearby me that would be even remotely similar.

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      48 months ago

      I know of at least two in the city that I regular pass by. I had no idea this was even a thing around the rest of the world. Never heard of anyone talking about them on the internet until today.