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Re:Death of the Country Club by RickJWagner on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @10:58PM (#20161367)
Bowling went through a similar decline.

Societal forces, worth of underlying real estate, etc.

We need something similar, else we risk further erosion of social fabric.

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Re:Death of the Country Club by SomeOldThrow on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @11:15PM (#20161452)
If country clubs ever contributed positively to social fabric they have hidden this phenomenon very well.
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Re:Death of the Country Club by WalterBright on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @11:34PM (#20161566)
> Leisure for today’s younger adults more often involves streaming TV shows in a high-rent city bedroom, not playing 18 holes on a suburban green.

Not sure that's better.

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Re:Death of the Country Club by SomeOldThrow on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @01:30AM (#20162013)
It sure as hell ain't worse.

Anyway, the "high rent" bit makes me reject it wholesale. This was targeted at yuppies, not the people excluded from country clubs. Who gives a shit about yuppies (including us all): they can buy whatever they need.

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Re:Death of the Country Club by mc32 on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @11:26PM (#20161525)
The worst thing about them is all the C-types talk to each other and compare and then come back and say, why aren’t we using solution X? So and so is using it at their co and they’re doing well!
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Re:Death of the Country Club by iamstef on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @11:51PM (#20161638)
Literally the worst
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Re:Death of the Country Club by RickJWagner on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @11:20PM (#20161488)
They brought us "CaddyShack".
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