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What are some good places for 10-20 people to just hang out? Everywhere seems to involve a lot of spending or limited seating. A sports bar or English style p

What are some good places for 10-20 people to just hang out? Everywhere seems to involve a lot of spending or limited seating. A sports bar or English style pub would work, but I’d rather without encouraging everyone to continuously consume alcohol.

jareklupinski 4y ago
bowling is fun, maybe karaoke if you're in a city if it's a group with a common interest, you can rent a room in a dance studio or something similar, set up tables/chairs there, and have a hobby night
xwdv 4y ago
Parking lots, malls, outside of movie theaters, woods, riverbanks, people’s houses, old docks at lakes. 10-20 friends used to show up at this one lake easily off one group text. We’d spend hours talking, sitting on an old wood dock drinking beers and skipping stones we picked up from the loose gravel along the shore, and yelling to hear our echoes spread through the mountains. One time we hung up a rope on a thick tree branch and went swinging off the hill and flinging ourselves into the water. As the sun would begin to set we’d lite a small bon fire on the shore and sit around it staring into the flames philosophizing, occasionally some guys and girls might wander off into the woods to make out, smoke some weed or do who knows what. And when it got very late, we’d drive out to whatever burger joint was still open and sit on the curbs in parking lots eating greasy food. Always 10 or 20 people deep, just hanging out. Just another random day in our lives, oblivious to the dark shadow slowly crawling across our world.
- epicureanideal 4y ago
  Knowing how litigious the USA is these settings make me very nervous. Good way to lose everything because someone trips on a rock and blames you.
  - floren 4y ago
    Is that what makes you nervous, or is unexamined social anxiety making you nervous? Because it sounds like you're suggesting that, if you and 10 friends are hanging out down some forest service road in the woods, one of them might trip on a rock and decide to sue you... does that sound particularly likely?
    - epicureanideal 4y ago
      If I'm trying to meet NEW people, not long-term existing friends, it starts to sound like more of a reasonable concern, right? If they're existing long-term friends you can meet anywhere, including in your own home, parks, wherever, but I assume third places would also be intended to expand your friend circle, not just hang out with whoever you happen to already know.
- panaffa 4y ago
  What a beautiful experience. Finally realizing what I've missed all these years damn
ravagat 4y ago
- Your local park - public library usually has rooms of various sizes plus you have the added amenities - local high school gym/auditorium can be rented - if you live in a house, your yard. if you live in an apartment, your rooftop - parking lot among others
- epicureanideal 4y ago
  Some kind of sports bar type environment (TV, drinks, food, lots of seating) would be ideal, but without the emphasis on it being a bar... if there were a place like that but with tea or coffee I'd definitely invite people there more.
  - ravagat 4y ago
    Oh then I'd recommend cigar lounges and/or hookah lounges. You don't need to indulge in smoking, most I've been to serve meals, drinks, and especially tea and coffee.

jareklupinski 4y ago

bowling is fun, maybe karaoke if you're in a city if it's a group with a common interest, you can rent a room in a dance studio or something similar, set up tables/chairs there, and have a hobby night

xwdv 4y ago

Parking lots, malls, outside of movie theaters, woods, riverbanks, people’s houses, old docks at lakes. 10-20 friends used to show up at this one lake easily off one group text. We’d spend hours talking, sitting on an old wood dock drinking beers and skipping stones we picked up from the loose gravel along the shore, and yelling to hear our echoes spread through the mountains. One time we hung up a rope on a thick tree branch and went swinging off the hill and flinging ourselves into the water. As the sun would begin to set we’d lite a small bon fire on the shore and sit around it staring into the flames philosophizing, occasionally some guys and girls might wander off into the woods to make out, smoke some weed or do who knows what. And when it got very late, we’d drive out to whatever burger joint was still open and sit on the curbs in parking lots eating greasy food. Always 10 or 20 people deep, just hanging out. Just another random day in our lives, oblivious to the dark shadow slowly crawling across our world.

epicureanideal 4y ago
Knowing how litigious the USA is these settings make me very nervous. Good way to lose everything because someone trips on a rock and blames you.
- floren 4y ago
  Is that what makes you nervous, or is unexamined social anxiety making you nervous? Because it sounds like you're suggesting that, if you and 10 friends are hanging out down some forest service road in the woods, one of them might trip on a rock and decide to sue you... does that sound particularly likely?
  - epicureanideal 4y ago
    If I'm trying to meet NEW people, not long-term existing friends, it starts to sound like more of a reasonable concern, right? If they're existing long-term friends you can meet anywhere, including in your own home, parks, wherever, but I assume third places would also be intended to expand your friend circle, not just hang out with whoever you happen to already know.
panaffa 4y ago
What a beautiful experience. Finally realizing what I've missed all these years damn

ravagat 4y ago

- Your local park - public library usually has rooms of various sizes plus you have the added amenities - local high school gym/auditorium can be rented - if you live in a house, your yard. if you live in an apartment, your rooftop - parking lot among others

epicureanideal 4y ago
Some kind of sports bar type environment (TV, drinks, food, lots of seating) would be ideal, but without the emphasis on it being a bar... if there were a place like that but with tea or coffee I'd definitely invite people there more.
- ravagat 4y ago
  Oh then I'd recommend cigar lounges and/or hookah lounges. You don't need to indulge in smoking, most I've been to serve meals, drinks, and especially tea and coffee.