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Sounds like you don't get out much. I'm 35, grew up in a sterile DC-area bedroom community and even I walked down main streets when I went 10 minutes down the

Sounds like you don't get out much. I'm 35, grew up in a sterile DC-area bedroom community and even I walked down main streets when I went 10 minutes down the road on shopping trips. Then again there are a lot of cities/towns on the east coast that predate the car, so there's probably an increased concentration of "main streets".

BobbyJo 3y ago
I think the key is DC area. Having grown up in a small town, we didn't have a main street anymore, only a Walmart.
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newswasboring 3y ago
> Sounds like you don't get out much Just completely unnecessary ad hominem. Why?
- scottLobster 3y ago
  I was responding to a guy saying anyone under 50 has probably never walked down a Main St. Which I took as yet more "old man yells at cloud" sentiment. It's not just where I grew up either, the town where I went to college had a literal "Main St" with privately owned shops/bars/etc, and a permanent population of ~35,000. All of the ~20,000 students walked down it at some point because that's where the University book store and most of the popular bars/restaurants were. The suburb I live in now has a literal "Main St" as well. Maybe it's an east coast thing, but saying he doesn't get out much was more a statement of fact. I can't think of anyone I've ever met who has never experienced a Main St, and the only people I can think of who might possibly meet that criteria are people who live in tiny rural towns that they never leave, aka people who don't get out much.
  - newswasboring 3y ago
    > Which I took as yet more "old man yells at cloud" sentiment. This is the uncharitable assumption which you didn't have to make. Someone was describing something they observed, you can counter them without making silly snide comments.
    - scottLobster 3y ago
      I don't think it's uncharitable at all. Anyone who makes a statement like "most people under 50 have never experienced a Main St" is making assumptions so large, so unexamined and so obviously incorrect that it has to be emotionally driven, especially when it's phrased along the lines of "kids today don't understand X". If it is a legitimate observation, they must really, literally, not get out much and I would recommend driving to the nearest town with a population north of 10,000 and look around a bit to broaden their horizons. That's the generous interpretation.
johnnyanmac 3y ago
I'm 30 and I had to look up "Main street". Those simply don't exist in western suburbs where I grew up (At least, not 90's+ suburb.). Let alone the boonies where there's simply 1 "super"market, one liquor store, and maybe one fast food restaurant. I understand it, though. There very much was a main street downtown in my college town. It wasn't literally called "main street", however.

BobbyJo 3y ago

I think the key is DC area. Having grown up in a small town, we didn't have a main street anymore, only a Walmart.

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newswasboring 3y ago

> Sounds like you don't get out much Just completely unnecessary ad hominem. Why?

scottLobster 3y ago
I was responding to a guy saying anyone under 50 has probably never walked down a Main St. Which I took as yet more "old man yells at cloud" sentiment. It's not just where I grew up either, the town where I went to college had a literal "Main St" with privately owned shops/bars/etc, and a permanent population of ~35,000. All of the ~20,000 students walked down it at some point because that's where the University book store and most of the popular bars/restaurants were. The suburb I live in now has a literal "Main St" as well. Maybe it's an east coast thing, but saying he doesn't get out much was more a statement of fact. I can't think of anyone I've ever met who has never experienced a Main St, and the only people I can think of who might possibly meet that criteria are people who live in tiny rural towns that they never leave, aka people who don't get out much.
- newswasboring 3y ago
  > Which I took as yet more "old man yells at cloud" sentiment. This is the uncharitable assumption which you didn't have to make. Someone was describing something they observed, you can counter them without making silly snide comments.
  - scottLobster 3y ago
    I don't think it's uncharitable at all. Anyone who makes a statement like "most people under 50 have never experienced a Main St" is making assumptions so large, so unexamined and so obviously incorrect that it has to be emotionally driven, especially when it's phrased along the lines of "kids today don't understand X". If it is a legitimate observation, they must really, literally, not get out much and I would recommend driving to the nearest town with a population north of 10,000 and look around a bit to broaden their horizons. That's the generous interpretation.

johnnyanmac 3y ago

I'm 30 and I had to look up "Main street". Those simply don't exist in western suburbs where I grew up (At least, not 90's+ suburb.). Let alone the boonies where there's simply 1 "super"market, one liquor store, and maybe one fast food restaurant. I understand it, though. There very much was a main street downtown in my college town. It wasn't literally called "main street", however.