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Its one reason I hate cafes in America, its full of people working on laptops, its a horrible atmosphere. As for campuses I'm surprised you're allowed to hang o
by rb808 8y ago
Its one reason I hate cafes in America, its full of people working on laptops, its a horrible atmosphere. As for campuses I'm surprised you're allowed to hang out there all day. Libraries in NYC are mostly for homeless people.
- dvt 8y agoI'm a UCLA alum, but even so: it's a public school, so anyone can (theoretically) hang out. USC is private, so I don't think I could work there.
- praneshp 8y ago> its full of people working on laptops, What, in your opinion, should people be doing in cafes on weekday afternoons?
- rb808 8y agoDrinking coffee and talking to their friends.
- raverbashing 8y agoI think that works mostly on TV series. Not that students don't meet friends on afternoons to go for coffee, but it is rare. Especially when meeting somewhere else for free is, well, free. People don't pay for a coffee nowadays, they pay for a place to sit and use the wifi
- vultour 8y agoWow, that must be the most American thing I've heard in a long while.
- NTDF9 8y agoIt is. Unfortunately, American society has finely tuned itself to money/business oriented thought processes. So much so that most people here think its awkward to just spend an afternoon at a coffee shop talking.
- rorykoehler 8y agoSame in Singapore tbh
- kaishiro 8y agoTo each their own. I adore this atmosphere.
- CPLX 8y ago> Libraries in NYC are mostly for homeless people. No they aren’t that’s ridiculous.
- chauzer 8y agoAgreed. Not sure where that comment came from, but I've lived in NYC for 9 years and never seen homeless people at the library whenever I've worked from there.
- artursapek 8y agoThe comment was an exaggeration to be sure, but I've seen the occasional sleeping homeless person at a library in the West Village. They get asked to leave pretty quickly though.
- merolish 8y agoI've come to avoid having dates or catching up with friends at certain coffee shop-style places after a couple experiences where we were literally surrounded by people silently on their laptops. I prefer to have conversations without an audience of strangers. And this is probably me getting old but I don't know how people can spend hours hunched over a laptop in café seating, as opposed to an ergonomic office chair and monitor at eye level.
- cco 8y ago>And this is probably me getting old but I don't know how people can spend hours hunched over a laptop in café seating, as opposed to an ergonomic office chair and monitor at eye level. Ask any orthopedist, it catches up to them. We can all buffer it for a certain amount of time, but anybody who does this for a long time will develop issues.
- flukus 8y ago> where we were literally surrounded by people silently on their laptops. That doesn't even sound like coffee shop is the right description, that's an office that sells coffee.
- ajdlinux 8y ago> And this is probably me getting old I realised I was having posture issues with extended laptop use at approximately age 23 or so.
- huehehue 8y agoA good number of non-chain cafes in NYC have restrictions on laptops during work hours, weekends, or whenever it's really busy (common sense rule). Also anecdotal but I haven't had issues with homeless at the libraries. There's even a huge, policed library / research center in midtown that has dedicated quiet rooms, highly recommend.
- artursapek 8y agoShout out to Abraco on 7th and 1st - they put tape over their outlets which says "no laptops - it ruins the vibe"