Diesel. City parks and places where there are benches, or even better, a table where I can put the laptop to write.
Danger Planet, when it existed, but your FNGS in general. Library, but only for solitude. The mall, though they seem to have removed the comfy couches this past year.
The mall's really two things, one where you go and do mall stuff, and the other where you use it as a public space (e.g. for indoor walking in winter, or just to sit there and have crowds mill around you).
NYC from March to Dec has its parks pretty much full of people, because that's the public's back yard. When I was a kid, many of our back yards connected up, so the whole thing was kind of an extended playground, but I think that's rarer these days?
My main answer also used to be "friends' houses" but that, again, seems to have fallen off in middle age. Different kind of hanging out, though it was pretty much similar if a pile of us all ended up at John's house or whatever (which often happened).
And the last place isn't really a place, it's an activity: walking. One of the nice things about walking is that generally people let you do it, unlike sitting around, where sometimes they get antsy if you don't buy something.
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Diesel. City parks and places where there are benches, or even better, a table where I can put the laptop to write.
Danger Planet, when it existed, but your FNGS in general. Library, but only for solitude. The mall, though they seem to have removed the comfy couches this past year.
The mall's really two things, one where you go and do mall stuff, and the other where you use it as a public space (e.g. for indoor walking in winter, or just to sit there and have crowds mill around you).
NYC from March to Dec has its parks pretty much full of people, because that's the public's back yard. When I was a kid, many of our back yards connected up, so the whole thing was kind of an extended playground, but I think that's rarer these days?
My main answer also used to be "friends' houses" but that, again, seems to have fallen off in middle age. Different kind of hanging out, though it was pretty much similar if a pile of us all ended up at John's house or whatever (which often happened).
And the last place isn't really a place, it's an activity: walking. One of the nice things about walking is that generally people let you do it, unlike sitting around, where sometimes they get antsy if you don't buy something.
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libraries seem to have spaces for non-solitude now, although perhaps mostly for kids and teens.
And yes - I may know the list, but having it written helps!