Kids playing in the streets.
Kids having semi autonomy.
Cheap rent.
Glass fold food and beverage bottles and jars.
A middle class.
Hope.
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Deep snow... like up past the hedges
Pay phones
The white dog poop from the seventies.
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Windshields being covered with bug guts. Way more fireflies in the summer (but our yard still has some because we don't rake under the bushes). People smoking just fucking everywhere.
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Porno mags in hedgerows
Discarded ring pulls from drinks cans
Oil-puddle stains in car parking bays
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Video rental shops. Going into town to pick a movie for the weekend used to be a weekly thing for us.
Children building guys and demanding money.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-penny-for-the-guy.html
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Pedo’s in jail.
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lack of bugs, mostly due to global warming pesticide use, and planting non-native ornamental plants, most of which can be weedy or poisonous.
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Cassettes
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A windscreen covered with insects
Because all of the insects are dead
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Trousers that fit :-(
Blockbuster.
Amega and Acorn? NES, Master System, etc made sort of come backs with retro stuff. Not so much Amega, and certainly not Acorn.
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Sense.
mouldy ceilings and weird smells of rain and soot coming from the chimney
Telephones
Seeing people on roller skates or skateboards
Edit: came from all, didn't look at the comm, not from the UK.
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