With almost all 20-somethings I meet in California, I tend to assume that they don’t drink alcohol and I’m often right.
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@godzero new gold medal is the Oakland Chinatown late night place im thinking you’re talking about
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@skinnylatte @skinnylatte I didn't start socializing (drinking) until very late in my age. In my country, it's the opposite, you start drinking very late from 1am to 5am (coffee shops close from 9 to 10 p.m) and alcohol and good wine is super cheap (4$ a bottle of whiskey i.e.) and with an alcohol culture that i's kind of a good thing. I used to be the weirdo with few friends, the literally 99% of my circle drank into near ethyl coma. Now I drink moderately and I'm fine with that. I think I wasted a little time going against the grain. There has to be room for everyone. Young people drink and smoke less now. But I don't know, life is short, and without some vice it's boring.
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@skinnylatte I'm convinced that this is opening a space in the market for new kinds of spaces for socialising, which is really all bars are. e.g. Games cafes never used to be a thing. It could be wonderful.
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We (Ann Arbor, Mich) have a few coffee shops that are in Arab communities and they are hoppin until their 1AM close. Is there a similar ethnic pocket near you? -
@wenge we have Yemeni coffee shops that open till 10 or so, but this coast is a sleepy coast
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@skinnylatte that's interesting, a majority of my friends in their 20s and 30s are really into craft beer and mixed drinks here in the southeast. I like a glass of wine with dinner at home but don't like drinking when I go out, mostly because I'm cheap
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@Jennifer yeah this was true here.. 10 years ago. In the last few years it’s really died down
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@skinnylatte it is *just now* that I realized NA probably meant non-alcoholic instead of north-americas.
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@ellie hehe
