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At most thats $25 of gas And $40 of parking for most SoCal residents, and thats if you drive a particularly fuel inefficient car. At 25-30 mpg, a 60 mile round

At most thats $25 of gas And $40 of parking for most SoCal residents, and thats if you drive a particularly fuel inefficient car. At 25-30 mpg, a 60 mile round trip radius covers a lot of the LA/OC area for less than $15. $60 + 2 hours of driving << $600 of Hotel fees. It’s not even close.

999900000999 4y ago
The more I think about this article the more I find it wanting. I go to various free concerts in my city. You can have a lot of fun for free, when I think back my favorite date of all time was just me and my first girlfriend holding hands at the pier. But if I wanted to write an article about how unaffordable dating is, I could say I wanted to take her to see Justin Timberlake. Did you know that Mr. Timberlake has made no effort to make his concert to affordable to working-class couples?!
- quartesixte 4y ago
  I think the point is that what used to be cultural staples of American Society for families have now become more expensive. Going to free concerts as a young couple (along with other cheap dates) is actually also somewhat expected and if the pop culture references and stories from Boomers/GenXer are true, also a staple of American Society. That being said, going to Disneyland wasn’t a frequent trip kind of thing to most Americans anyways, and the Disneyland of the 60s and 70s is downright unrecognizable at times (chainlink fences at the park entrance). I think the article could have done without the Disneyland reference.
  - 999900000999 4y ago
    No reason you can't just take your whole family to the beach. It's like complaining Steven King novels cost too much, thousands upon thousands of novels are free, you can always read those while you save up money
    - EddieDante 4y ago
      Or you could get a library card.
      - quartesixte 4y ago
        Having fun, isn’t hard, when you got a library card!
- mitchdoogle 4y ago
  It's a clickbait article, not a scientific study.

999900000999 4y ago

The more I think about this article the more I find it wanting. I go to various free concerts in my city. You can have a lot of fun for free, when I think back my favorite date of all time was just me and my first girlfriend holding hands at the pier. But if I wanted to write an article about how unaffordable dating is, I could say I wanted to take her to see Justin Timberlake. Did you know that Mr. Timberlake has made no effort to make his concert to affordable to working-class couples?!

quartesixte 4y ago
I think the point is that what used to be cultural staples of American Society for families have now become more expensive. Going to free concerts as a young couple (along with other cheap dates) is actually also somewhat expected and if the pop culture references and stories from Boomers/GenXer are true, also a staple of American Society. That being said, going to Disneyland wasn’t a frequent trip kind of thing to most Americans anyways, and the Disneyland of the 60s and 70s is downright unrecognizable at times (chainlink fences at the park entrance). I think the article could have done without the Disneyland reference.
- 999900000999 4y ago
  No reason you can't just take your whole family to the beach. It's like complaining Steven King novels cost too much, thousands upon thousands of novels are free, you can always read those while you save up money
  - EddieDante 4y ago
    Or you could get a library card.
    - quartesixte 4y ago
      Having fun, isn’t hard, when you got a library card!
mitchdoogle 4y ago
It's a clickbait article, not a scientific study.