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.
once upon a time there would have been a plethora of places on this list—everything from coffee shops to the mall to clubs to museums and two dozen things in between—and then we entered and continue to live through a global pandemic and now…
honestly, nothing.
maybe the backyard, or a common courtyard or other outdoor space. maybe a park.
Coffeeshop. Park, preferably with playground attached. Beach. Bar. Lobby (I'm thinking of large hotels plus conventions, or the atrium at my workplace, which has seating).
"Hang out" to me has social connotations, even if we're sitting in companionable silence. So places where I'd go to 'hang out' by myself don't really register in the same way: library, bookstore, garden.
I live on a small island, and there's a dearth of places to hang out. About ten thousand people live on the island, maybe about half rural and half in the small town, though the number doubles during tourist season. A lot of the restaurants cater to tourists looking for a Vacation Experience, and aren't really places to linger. It's regrettable.
There are some beaches that are further away from the areas tourists end up in, but the weather has to be good. There's a tiny beach just down the hill from us, not very impressive, but we can walk there and watch the sea and in the winter swans nest there, which is nice.
We're hoping our greenhouse (10 meter diameter hemisphere) can be a good hanging-out place for visitors to our house. We bought a bunch of discount holiday lights to hang in it.
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Date: 2023-03-30 11:47 pm (UTC)Library... not that I hung out with people, but it was a quiet place to go.
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Date: 2023-03-31 01:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2023-03-31 02:23 am (UTC)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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Date: 2023-03-31 02:36 am (UTC)And cafés, although they're not so much my thing as just... culturally designated as "where you go to hang out". So I think of them too. :-)
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Date: 2023-03-31 04:58 am (UTC)honestly, nothing.
maybe the backyard, or a common courtyard or other outdoor space. maybe a park.
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Date: 2023-03-31 07:56 am (UTC)Re: Thoughts
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Date: 2023-03-31 03:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-03-31 05:11 pm (UTC)"Hang out" to me has social connotations, even if we're sitting in companionable silence. So places where I'd go to 'hang out' by myself don't really register in the same way: library, bookstore, garden.
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Date: 2023-04-01 05:11 am (UTC)There are some beaches that are further away from the areas tourists end up in, but the weather has to be good. There's a tiny beach just down the hill from us, not very impressive, but we can walk there and watch the sea and in the winter swans nest there, which is nice.
We're hoping our greenhouse (10 meter diameter hemisphere) can be a good hanging-out place for visitors to our house. We bought a bunch of discount holiday lights to hang in it.
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Date: 2023-04-14 11:19 pm (UTC)