House Parties Going Away in America
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Saturday night will be one of the grandest, most amazing house parties of the year at my neighbor's house... which is perfect, because I can easily get home whenever I want. No kids allowed, lots of booze, finger food, and a bonfire.
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Does having a weekly poker game count toward this?
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@Dashrender Yes.
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@Dashrender said:
Does having a weekly poker game count toward this?
Definitely! Any gathering for the sole purpose of having fun counts. 8-)
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Sweet, than I'm in the game! We had a weekly game for 10 years, then took 6 years off and just restarted it 6 weeks ago.
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@Dashrender similar, but monthly board game nights. I'll make food, guests bring booze and cigars.
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In my group of friends my house is the place to gather, at least once a week we get together, eat some food, etc. Once a month we have a bigger game night.
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@jenuinecase said:
In my group of friends my house is the place to gather, at least once a week we get together, eat some food, etc. Once a month we have a bigger game night.
I did not read the linked article. is it talking about this kind of thing or larger house parties?
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The gist I took from the article was that social gatherings at people's homes are on the decline.
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@Dashrender said:
The gist I took from the article was that social gatherings at people's homes are on the decline.
Well until I moved to Chicago, one circle of friends would get together every other Friday for D&D night at one guys house. On the opposite Friday a different circle of friends would gather at his house for a different RPG game.
So if that counts, we have been social without changing for years.
I run a D&D game every other Tuesday but it is online (with voice/video via Google Hangouts, not in person.
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@JaredBusch said:
I run a D&D game every other Tuesday but it is online (with voice/video via Google Hangouts, not in person.
This online is a large part of the blame for the lack of house parties, according to the article.
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@JaredBusch said:
I run a D&D game every other Tuesday but it is online (with voice/video via Google Hangouts, not in person.
@Dashrender said:
This online is a large part of the blame for the lack of house parties, according to the article.
Okay, I can see it from one perspective, but from another, it is keeping friends together who would normally be separated by distance. Specific to my example, the people playing in the online game were friends locally that spread out over time. We have added a few new people over the years, but the core have been friends since childhood.
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I think that @JaredBusch has a point. Maybe the bigger issue was that previous generations didn't move around and knew their neighbours and could associate with people for much of their lives. Now we tend to move around other people that we know do. So the ability to have house parties with our long time friends is nearly impossible like it was with previous generations.
Maybe online communications isn't making the house party go away, maybe it is filling a gap that has already been left. The house party went away before we had Internet access.
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@scottalanmiller You have a good point about being in the same place a long time. The main part of my family has been located in central georgia for 4 or 5 generations. It's rare that one of us goes to a Walmart and we don't run into a family friend or three, or perhaps another branch of the family tree.
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller You have a good point about being in the same place a long time. The main part of my family has been located in central georgia for 4 or 5 generations. It's rare that one of us goes to a Walmart and we don't run into a family friend or three, or perhaps another branch of the family tree.
^^^ This is the essence of small town Georgia living, and why I avoid the area where I grew up (unless I'm there to see my parents).
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@RojoLoco said:
@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller You have a good point about being in the same place a long time. The main part of my family has been located in central georgia for 4 or 5 generations. It's rare that one of us goes to a Walmart and we don't run into a family friend or three, or perhaps another branch of the family tree.
^^^ This is the essence of small town Georgia living, and why I avoid the area where I grew up (unless I'm there to see my parents).
You must not like your family...
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House Parties have been made illegal by many ordances or require a permit in many locations now sadly.
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@dafyre said:
@RojoLoco said:
@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller You have a good point about being in the same place a long time. The main part of my family has been located in central georgia for 4 or 5 generations. It's rare that one of us goes to a Walmart and we don't run into a family friend or three, or perhaps another branch of the family tree.
^^^ This is the essence of small town Georgia living, and why I avoid the area where I grew up (unless I'm there to see my parents).
You must not like your family...
I don't like being talked about behind my back by people who act totally different to my face, so no.... Nor do I like hearing from my mom that $relative ran into me when I was at $place. I was there. I remember. I don't need a review.
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@Jason said:
House Parties have been made illegal by many ordances or require a permit in many locations now sadly.
'Murica
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That's much like the guidebooks here.... "In litigious countries like the US, you'd never be allowed to go explore a live lava flow, but here in Nicaragua, you can walk right up to the volcano edge."
