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by WarOnPrivacy
312 days ago
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> One of the big reasons is that bars are dead. I only ever knew one guy who was a regular bar patron. He lost his license for DWI and was hit by a drunk driver while bicycling home. Our peers all had parties and crashed where we were. Bars always felt like a TV-Only thing. Like self-cleaning houses. Like making 40k/yr in LA and affording bars and nice housing. |
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Most recent regular was a pub in an Irish neighborhood, staffed by Irish people (honestly a much better experience than "Irish" pubs), 4 bucks for a beer, and that's in an expensive city.
Though it can be easy to overlook the sort of hole in the wall places that function as the final holdouts with locals that have been going there for decades. I think it helps to be tolerant of divey places if you went to stumble upon them. I've found it quite nice - you get plugged into a social circle where there's zero expectation to do anything, although it can be a bit odd if everyone is from the immediate neighborhood and you are a bit further out. But I just give it to them straight and say "there aren't many bars like this around anymore" and if it's a good one you usually get a good bit of history that's interesting and of itself.