• @fidodo@lemmy.world
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      381 year ago

      They mention cost of living a lot in the article. They also point out that there’s way lower drug use. On top of cost of living I bet a lot of people are getting their escapism from games and Internet instead.

      • @phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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        I think the fact that almost anything might be laced with a lethal dose of fentanyl these days could also be a contributor. A lot of drugs are just white powder… makes it hard to know what’s in it in a party setting.

          • @Psythik@lemmy.world
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            They mentioned a party setting.

            I don’t know about you, but I’m not bringing test strips to every party, cause I’m not automatically assuming that every party will have drugs. Drugs at a party are the kind of thing that randomly shows up when you least expect it, so it’s not always easy to be prepared.

            • @TheFriar@lemm.ee
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              31 year ago

              Always have a Guinea pig no one will miss tagalong with you to parties

              🌈The More You Know🌠

      • @AlexS@feddit.de
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        11 year ago

        I bet a lot of people are getting their escapism from games and Internet instead.

        More and more people are getting addicted to computer/smartphone games, porn and online gambling. Less do alcohol. Tobacco seems to be constant.

        • @S_204@lemm.ee
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          An ounce of weed is like $50 these days, a fraction of when I was a teenager. Just blaze.

            • Flying Squid
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              Weed is cheap as hell in Michigan. I wish it was true in Illinois. I’m in Indiana, where it’s illegal, but getting weed from Illinois is a 30-minute drive. However, it’s much more expensive and you’re limited to 14 grams as a non-state resident. Getting weed from Michigan is much, much cheaper and there’s no limit, but it is a 5-hour drive through Indiana for me and I’m not driving that far back through Indiana with a shit ton of weed in my car.

                • Flying Squid
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                  21 year ago

                  I buy online too. And then I drive to the dispensary in Illinois and pick it up. How do they get it to you if you’re in a state where it’s not legal?

    • Flying Squid
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      Plus entry fee. I grew up in a college town and went to the same university. There was a nightclub there (still there amazingly) that had beer for a dime after you paid the cover fee on Tuesdays. I think the entry fee was something like $5, if that.

      • @Thetimefarm@lemm.ee
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        This has to be some sort of penis based loss leader for them right? Like get the dudes sloshed on cheap beer so they’ll buy pricier drinks for women they hit on. I hate to say it but that strategy would definately have worked on me when I was college age.

        • Flying Squid
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          71 year ago

          It isn’t a singles club type of place, so I don’t think so. It has live bands. I’m guessing it doesn’t have dime beer night anymore though.

      • @gapbetweenus@feddit.de
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        A club run not for profit? Mostly by some alternative folks. Often with some leftist touch. I was doing visuals in a few spots like that, besides illegal outdoor parties - best places for me. And I’m not even that much into it to begin with.

        • @TheFriar@lemm.ee
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          Yeah, I’ve been to off the book raves and parties and stuff, but I didn’t realize there were not for profit CLUB spots

  • @boogetyboo@aussie.zone
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    I guess it says a lot about the Lemmy demographics but it’s getting really sad that every time something about nightclubs appears here, there’s a whole bunch of people explaining why they don’t like night clubs.

    I’m assuming Lemmy trends towards a more introverted group and that’s cool. But I’m here not caring about Linux or Baldur’s gate, while at the same time understanding that it’s very important and interesting to a bunch of people.

    I’m an elder millennial. I spent a shit tonne of time in clubs, as did the majority of people I know. I still did other things in places that were more quiet, had conversations and met people. It’s true guys - you can actually like both!

    I went clubbing to sometimes meet boys, but mostly to drink and dance to extremely loud and often very commercial music, sometimes on drugs too. Because people, that kind of activity is really fun to some people.

    But these threads always read like a Boomer pile on on a Facebook post, yammering about how they played outside as kids and walked to school.

    The reason younger people aren’t clubbing as much is cost. That’s it. Talk about that. Not how you think it’s an interesting take that clubs are loud and dirty.

    • I was at a night club last night, partying like I’m miss 20s. Difference is now I’m helping producing the event rather than just going

  • Chozo
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    The majority of Gen Z isn’t even old enough to get into a nightclub to begin with. Gen Z is currently 12-27. I’m bad at math, but isn’t that something like only 40% of the generation that’s 21+?

      • Chozo
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        41 year ago

        Oh yeah that’s right. I always forget that’s a thing. That still seems so bizarre to me.

        • @GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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          121 year ago

          That people can drink when they’re considered adults? Or that america sends them to war or to take on a mortgage before they may have a beer out of some puritanical prudishness?

          • Chozo
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            Not a puritan prude, but children shouldn’t drink alcohol. I don’t think that’s really that hot of a take. There’s a lot of science behind the damage alcohol causes to developing bodies, but hang onto them pearls, I guess.

            • @GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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              51 year ago

              Im not in disagreement, just saying if someone is considered old and implicitly wise enough to grasp what joining the military or taking on decades of debt really means, they most certainly are old enough to drink alcohol as they see fit.

        • @Nudding@lemmy.world
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          In the states, you can fight and die for your country, or shoot a porno flick, 3 years before your allowed to drink a beer lol.

          That doesn’t seem bizarre to you?

  • CrazyEddie041
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    The new attitude, coupled with a cost of living crisis that leaves many younger generations unable to afford a party lifestyle, is having a knock-on effect on the nighttime economy.

    Title is blatantly misleading. Gen Z wants to party as much as their predecessors did, they literally just don’t have the money to do so.

    • I bet it’s a little of both. I think every successive generation in the US has become more socially isolated. Car culture, suburban sprawl, internet culture, lack of “third places”, etc. I’m reminded of the sociology book Bowling Alone, by Robert Putnam. It starts with the observation that more Americans go bowling than ever, but memberships to bowling leagues has fallen. Americans are still bowling, but they’re bowling alone.

    • @Psythik@lemmy.world
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      Millennials didn’t have money, either (and still don’t), but that didn’t stop us from partying. I literally entered the job market right as the economy crashed, but I still found a way to get my party on. Cheap hobo wine is the nector of the gods when you’re 21 and have been unemployed since you were 17.

  • @wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works
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    71 year ago

    If that’s what it takes for them to stop pretending that anyone wants to pay that much, then great. Alcohol prices are obscene.

    And that’s coming from someone that absolutely hates alcohol’s mere existence as a beverage type. I won’t go into that here, but rest assured I’m not losing any sleep over anything that makes it more obvious it’s a bad choice.

    I’ve always said that I am ok with almost everything that makes cigarettes and/or alcohol less convenient/more expensive/less desirable.

    I’m willing to admit part of it is a “stop looking what I don’t like”, but I REALLY hate both of these things, and will rejoice any time something “terrible” happens to those industries or the people who benefit from them.

    I’m the monster that sees a smoker get lung cancer and just don’t feel bad for them. You literally chose that. Sorry but you did.

  • Blackout
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    161 year ago

    It’s because they are too busy switching genders and installing Linux builds

  • @jaschen@lemm.ee
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    GenX/millennial here, you ain’t missing much. It’s loud and impossible to meet anyone unless you’re already good looking.

      • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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        11 year ago

        Of course it’s supposed to be loud, but wearing earplugs doesn’t address the main problem I have with loudness, which is that it makes it almost impossible to have a conversation. Whenever I go to a club (which is pretty rare these days), I always plan on just hanging out with the people I went there with.

        • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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          21 year ago

          A loud club is not for conversation. You are to communicate through actions, and talk later.

          • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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            11 year ago

            I have no idea how to do that. It’s fine with me if some people like to go to clubs to meet people, but it’s not part of my skill set, so they have a pretty limited appeal to me.

    • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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      21 year ago

      The only times I ever met people at clubs were when I was hanging out in the outdoor smoking areas some of them have (had?). I wasn’t there to smoke, just to get a break from the loud music.

    • Flying Squid
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      121 year ago

      Also around your age (46). I didn’t go to clubs to meet people, I went to clubs to drink and dance. Or see a band if it had live music.

      I saw They Might Be Giants in a club. I saw P-Funk in a club. I saw King Missile in a club. I saw some fucking amazing bands, both national and regional, in clubs and I think the most expensive was P-Funk at $20.

  • BombOmOm
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    111 year ago

    Gen Z is just less outgoing in general. More computers, less nightclubs.

  • 🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱
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    Nightclubs aren’t on the brink, the idea that one can open a night club and charge $$$ to get in as well as an absurd amount of money to buy drinks is. On a side note, as an elder millennial, I have never really been attracted to loud and dirty places where I can’t have a conversation with anyone and every surface is slippery or sticky with god knows what.

    • A lot of them are reacting to the decreased number of customers by…raising drink prices. Doesn’t really help the situation. I’m too old to go to clubs regularly but if there’s an act I want to see, I just get drunk beforehand.

      Of course a lot of this is actually because of ridiculous rents anywhere where a club might actually get patrons. Clubs are no small square footage and they need to bring in a lot of money to stay open.