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[+] 133 points 1 year ago (8 children)
  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I knew I wouldn't be able to afford a vacation so I moved to a scenic tourist destination with a view of the fjord and drink coffee on my balcony. That way I can pretend. I also get one of the kids to throw a dishtowel over their arm and carry a small notebook while they ask me how I take the coffee thats been sitting in the pot for a half hour already.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    In what hell hole of Europe are you, that you don't get freshly brewed espresso?

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's how it starts. Just let it develop for a century or something and you'll probably be decent at it

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    This is genuinely really classy

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I was talking about this with a friend. The younger generations got screwed over because we have to evaluate what we value more, and give up one over the other to achieve one of the life goals. I managed to save for a house; but only because I lived with my parents for many years before moving out. I don't have a car and I haven't gone on foreign holidays in years. Meanwhile, my friend has travelled in so many countries but he doesn't have enough savings for a house. The boomer generation has been able to afford to live their life to the fullest with just a single household income, and didn't have to give up any or all of their life goals, values and desires.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our holidays.

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  • Very nice.
    But can you sit like that for four weeks on end?

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago (21 children)

    This, but private seating in your personal driveway.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Wait, outdoor sitting is a thing only in europe?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    Basically yes.

    We don't do that in the US anywhere near as much.

    Maybe a park will have a table and bench, maybe some certain restaurants in certain parts of certain cities will have them.

    But its much, much less common, as our society is designed to be unwalkable, designed for cars and parking lots and air conditioning.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    Where have you been in the US?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    All the way up and down the West Coast, multiple times, over the course of more than 2 decades of being driving age... from Bellingham WA down to LA / San Diego... many, many places in between... also many places all the way out to South Dakota via I 90.

    If I gave you a full list, I'd have to rewrite Johnny Cash's "I've been everywhere"... I've actually been to a good number of places in the original lyrics.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The towns and cities around me in Massachusetts have quite a bit of restaurant outdoor seating on sections of sidewalk.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah, I'm in Jersey and it's pretty easy to find places with outdoor seating. Got several in my small town.

    I will say that the feel is not quite the same as sitting somewhere in Paris, or Nice, or Aix. They angle all the chairs to face outward, I've noticed, and the tables are so often just tables for two. I'm sure I'm misremembering a bit, but the sentiment still stands, to me. The outdoor seating is almost geared toward sit here and look out, not at your tablemate, and do some people watching. I love it.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    While I generally agree with the sentiment, the distinction is if there's outside seating it's either a park, or owned by a restaurant. It's not like the blend of the street, sidewalk, businesses you see in Europe

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I agree with your specification.

    The kind if mixed use, areas that are walkable, have seating, various kinds of shops... usually only in a few districts of a few fairly large towns or large cities.

    There is seating, sometimes, in like... restaurants in basically a strip mall type set up... but they're like islands, surrounded by acres of parking lots.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    Fire codes prevent it in NA for a large part. Building have specific occupancy limits, and having booted down seats has exceptions for more space than loose chairs, and businesses usually want the capability of having the largest revenue, so most seats.

    Now this also applies outside as those would have to be part of their property. In most cities restaurants and the sort they are built right to their property limits, or they incorporate a patio with set seating.

    So if you do see it, it’s not movable furniture, but an actual area. Now along one of our drivable Aves they’ve made compromises, picture below, I don’t hate the solution, but it’s obviously not ideal and hard to accommodate wheelchairs.

    They’ve allowed sidewalks to be patios, and let some road space be made into the “sidewalk”, but it’s not a perfect solution, especially when it starts snowing.

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  • [+] -21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    FUN FACT: This restaurant's name translates to Lesbians, Dicks and Maggots!

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think it’s a joke about people sitting outside at cafes in Europe?

    I’ve heard this is a thing a lot of Americans find weird but I’m American and it’s not weird at all to me, we do literally the same thing here (at least in my home state)

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    It looks like they are at a sidewalk cafe in Europe. The Sangria implies Spain. Tiny tables and chairs and everyone is smoking.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    People go off on vacations to explore other places because they are told that is the thing to do yet they have never explored their own locality in the same fashion.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Me and bros during our vacations

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I don't think I'll even ever leave my continent at this point, but I do have a driveway…

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Not enough hostel smelling of Pachouli

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    [+] -8 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Cool, we don't need more tourists here.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    glances at the various GNIs

    Eh. Seems like something needs a boost, across the board.

    On the other hand, visiting the US rn might include a black-bag "tour" of a concrete oubliette, so: don't. Not even joking. 🥲

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Sorry, but I'm still lost, lol.

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