3 ms·
Cities in Europe, Japan, and Korea still have vibrant and central "third place" cultures, perhaps because the apartments tend to be smaller. Loneliness in Euro
by gumby 3y ago
Cities in Europe, Japan, and Korea still have vibrant and central "third place" cultures, perhaps because the apartments tend to be smaller. Loneliness in Europe IMHO seems more to occur outside cities where density is lower, though even there people our "out and about" more than I see in the US suburbs.
- dopidopHN 3y agoFrance is recently obsessed with “tier lieux” in rural place. Coffee place, book exchange, brewery, shop-postoffice-coffee, second hand shop and the mix of all the above. I go there every year or so, this year the “tier lieu” is what striked me as strong trend. It’s not new, but it’s on everyone lips.