X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay

Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by hintymad on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @05:26PM (#41175559)

> Suburbs can be prisons if there’s not enough people your age around you. I lived in semi-suburbs and had friends I’d walk to after school. Makes it more fun than having to organize car dates until someone gets a car. But nowadays kids are so supervised I don’t know if they hang outside anymore

Totally. There seem fewer kids in the neighborhood than before too. Play-date is such a suburb concept for the US kids. As a kid, I used to hang out with neighbor kids, sometimes more than a dozen, every day. Not any more for my kids in the suburb. To that end, I admire my Indian friends. Even during the most panicking days of Covid, they would organize weekly meetups of multiple families, so kids got to play together.

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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by jacobr1 on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @08:09PM (#41176908)

That seems like both a generational and cultural thing, vs a urban/sub-urban consideration. Prior generations in the US had kids just hangout with whomever in the neighborhood be it urban or sub-urban too. Playdates are probably just as common in urban areas now, the cultural change wasn't specific to the built-environment.

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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by bluGill on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @06:58PM (#41176368)

There are less kids outside, but that is just because families are so much smaller on average and there are less kids.

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