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Renting a tennis court will cost you more than 5 dollars, even in a public park.
by mgaunard 3y ago
Renting a tennis court will cost you more than 5 dollars, even in a public park.
- ben_w 3y agoYou don't need a tennis court unless you're getting serious. I used to play cricket with apples[0]. As a kid I always had more fun from freeform play than from rules. (Also strken wrote "throw" so I think they were thinking of a game of catch). [0] Not sure which exactly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malus — unless they've been replaced since I was a kid, the ones on the right as you leave the cul-de-sac: https://maps.app.goo.gl/bsdmAm5cXtDyxwYy9?g_st=ic https://maps.app.goo.gl/bsdmAm5cXtDyxwYy9?g_st=ic
- mgaunard 3y agoYou're being surprisingly overly specific with those tree links.
- supermatt 3y agoThe wikipedia link is for the apple tree genus. The word generic literally comes from the word genus, i.e. they couldn't be less specific when talking about apples.
- ben_w 3y agoIn fairness, my other link was to a Google street view image of (possibly) the actual trees from which the apples fell in c. 1993.
- kasey_junk 3y agoThere are dozens of public tennis courts within a 5 minute walk from my house that are all free all the time. I’m sort of shocked to hear they aren’t free everywhere. Which park system charges for tennis?
- chii 3y agoThe one where there's too many people for two few courts.
- hef19898 3y agoOh, the horror of interacting with other people and not being priviledged enough to cut the waiting line!
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- poulsbohemian 3y agoI think this is just an unfortunately reality of almost any public resource... my community just built a new pickleball complex, but there is still an opportunity for a private pickleball club that has an indoor space. Government is constantly caught in the middle trying to provide resources while also controlling costs and not wanting any project to look like a boondoggle or overspend.
- calderknight 3y agoDo you live in a densely populated area? There are free ones where I live too but I guess it might be different in the middle of a large city.
- kasey_junk 3y agoI am in Chicago
- mgaunard 3y agoWhy is your local government paying for construction and maintenance of tennis courts if they're not being used?
- MrJohz 3y ago
- mcv 3y ago> Renting a tennis court will cost you more than 5 dollars, even in a public park. A great example of how even similar experiences can cost whatever you want to pay. You can throw some balls for free or rent a tennis court to do it. Some rich people rent an entire venue for themselves when they go out. You can camp in some nearby woods or go on safari in Africa. Experiences cost however much you want to pay for them. Exclusivity though, that's expensive.
- j4yav 3y agoWhy would you need to rent a tennis court to throw balls with your kids though?
- johnnyanmac 3y agoI think baseballs or Footballs (both American and normal) would have been a better metaphor. tennis balls have this odd air resistance to them that make them less satifying to throw with your hands. Which makes sense, since they are designed to be whacked with a racket.
- j4yav 3y agoNeither of those need you to rent anything to throw around either, though, as far as I know.
- Bjartr 3y agoRent... a tennis court? I've never even heard of such a practice before. You just wait until there's a free court, then use it. I can imagine places where it's exceptionally popular and the perfect weather where a rental system would be viable, but I'm curious if it's the norm in places.
- gnicholas 3y agoIn Menlo Park, you have to pay something like $50/yr to get a key to the courts. The key price is higher if you live outside the city limits, in unincorporated Menlo Park (I assume because you're not paying city taxes). Fortunately there are unlocked courts in Palo Alto.
- happyraul 3y agoThis is a very US-centric view, where public subsidies for tennis courts exist. In Germany for example, there's no such thing as a public tennis court, as far as I can tell.
- Bjartr 3y agoDo parks in Germany have basketball courts, football pitches, or baseball diamonds? Is it that parks provide for sports that's US centric, or is it including tennis courts in that set of amenities that's US centric?
- poulsbohemian 3y agoThere was definitely a public basketball court and a football pitch within a few blocks of where I lived in suburban Münster. So can't speak for all of Germany, but there are some public spaces for the common sports in that country.