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House parties are cheap and don’t necessarily require any fake IDs, just somebody’s older sibling or friend to make the liquor store trip. Things shifted toward

House parties are cheap and don’t necessarily require any fake IDs, just somebody’s older sibling or friend to make the liquor store trip. Things shifted towards bars and nightclubs with my friends when people got older, started making money, and started living among yuppies and even families rather than more party-tolerant student housing.

laurent92 6y ago
...Things shifted when we all moved to cities for work, international travel, our flats became 30 square meters large and we were “unrooted” = not having the social fabric to know someone who has a house. Best case, we’d rent something from AirBnb for NYE in the mountains. Things stayed in bars until we started having our own houses, so between 20 and 35-40... The problem of “unrooting” (emigrating, being nomad and torn from the social fabric) is a serious civilizational issue, similar to when workers in XVIIIth were poorer than farmers of the same social level, because they had no land if things went bad.