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What I miss is the lack of just hanging out… because everyone’s always super busy so we can’t just catch up and do nothing, it has to be efficient. Or also just seeing parties and thinking about going but then everyone else somehow just stopped because clubs became so crazy expensive.

And then the whole housing situation also doesn’t really make it any better. What I saw is that formerly interesting places with an amazing variety of alternative subcultures have grown into terribly sterile, corporate places, most of the USA feels like that to me (although admittedly I haven’t spent much time there) and e.g. London and Amsterdam feel the same.