Do younger people go home earlier now? Or go out less? Is it since COVID?

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Someone asked a question about how frequently young people have time to socialize and it made me think about what people do with their evenings. I recently asked my son to go to a concert (free ticket to see a band i know he likes) and he declined because it was an hour away on a weeknight. If we invite our kids or niece/nephew to dinner they always want to go at 6/630 which feels so early. Edit: Kids are 30ish.

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Everything there involves spending money

Almost all the good socialization has become commercialized. There's no town square anymore, it's turned into a Walmart.

And not even a 24 hour Walmart.

I think that's a big point, hardly anything is open late anymore. Seems like the world stops at 10PM these days and everything has to shut down then.

Yeah, many places that shortened hours during covid have not resumed their BC hours.

Which i get, finding and keeping workers to work those odd hours can be hard and it is nice to get out of work at decent times if you do work at one of those places... besides bars if ur over 21or movies, i cant think of annother place to go when it gets late

hmmm.. has a square but doesn't have a 24 hour Wal Mart.... Portland?

not even a walmart. where i live it's a neiman marcus. if you don't have $2000 to drop on a single coat, GTFO.