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Yeah, I think I wasn't clear. I wasn't referring to the _existence_ of loud bars. The "problem" is that we have few-to-none of the quiet bars. The drinking/thir
by ttymck 3y ago
Yeah, I think I wasn't clear. I wasn't referring to the _existence_ of loud bars. The "problem" is that we have few-to-none of the quiet bars. The drinking/third-place culture in America is simply worse than the rest of the world (outside of NYC).
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y agoI think there’s a fair amount of truth to this. Really the only reasonably quiet bars in America that I’ve been to (which is a decent amount, I happen to like both traveling and drinking) are almost always either a hotel bar like the OP references or one of the dimly lit hipster speakeasy style places. Hotels have the downside of often being boring and expensive, and coincidentally the hipster speakeasy bars also often have the same downside. At least you’ll often get a bit more effort into your $25 cocktail when some bearded mixologist is shaking it up at the hipster joint.