Places are starting to think minors are bad for business because they’re more likely to cause disturbances (and often hang around without spending money)
A lot of these businesses are creating curfews for unaccompanied teens after around 2/3pm on Fridays and weekends, banning them on Fridays/weekends altogether, and/or banning them in the afternoon every day of the week (although some of the bans, like at the boardwalk, are after around 8pm). Some are banning them outright.
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"They're being unruly, violating code of conduct, which can include running through the property in large groups, fighting and putting it on TikTok, basically disrupting business and making it uncomfortable for our everyday customers”
Quote from the general manager of the oldest mall in New Jersey
It's the money thing primarily.
It really sucks being a teenager in the US right now. A few years ago, they lost a whole year of socialization due to the pandemic, got thrown back into gutted schools, having their rights get stripped away, etc... Now they can't even go anywhere because they can't spend money (and a few badly behaved teens give reason).
Being 19, a few months ago I went somewhere in Pittsburgh that made me show my driver’s license to prove my age and he stared it down like a fucking bartender because apparently I look younger. Wack
CW transphobia/child abuse
And if that wasn't bad enough, they're making penis inspection day a real thing in gym classes
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If I ever have kids. I am keeping them FAR AWAY from the rural suburbs as humanly possible. The legit countryside? Sure. But maybe not in
. Because I can say as someone who grew up in bumfuck nowhere, that I worry for my hypothetical child's social development if they are in an American suburb.
I'm not asking to have a family in Zurich or Tokyo here (although it would be strongly preferred), even a smaller city like Minneapolis (glory to the People's Republic of Chadesota) would do for this purpose.
Ideally, I would leave the US entirely, even
has a better shot at redeeming itself than the Great Satan.