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Where are they gonna go? We destroyed most of our third places, or made them so expensive to extract maximum profits.
Dinner is expensive, movies are expensive, small friendly local shops have been disappearing in favor of sterile corporate ones.
For a lot of people the only option would then be a home, which doesn't work great for a lot of reasons.
My first date with my husband, we went for a walk at a park..
Edit: whoever replied I have you blocked already, so have fun, I cant see your comments.
Yeah, my partner of 10+ years went on multiple dates to museums, parks, and botanic gardens in the first month. We ate delicious Mexican food after, all super cheap.
This was great because now it’s a tradition for us to go to museums on every vacation.
museum entry where i live is $50 now. yeah 15 year ago it as $15-20. i used to get a yearly membership for $60, now that membership is $200.
mexican dinner used to be $10, sure, but now it's $15-20 for a burrito at a cheap place, and a nice sit down mexican place is going to be $25-30 for a burrito.
so many people here are out of touch with how dating and going out costs are in 2026. you are living 10-20 years in the past.
cool. every first date i have had in the past decade ended with the suggestion we go to a very expensive restaurant afterwards suggested by her, and when I decline or suggest a more modest place she gets very angry about how I have ruined our nice date.
nice walks isn't a thing most single women are interested in anymore. it's regarded as 'not making an effort', and effort is regarded in the expense of the dates. even bowling, axe throwing, are now the 'casual cheap date', but those are all expensive now. renting a bowling lane in my city is $50 per lane per hour. add some cheap beers and food and boom it's over $100.
Non-matinee theater prices aren't that bad. Just don't load up on giant ass overpriced popcorn and sodas.
Coffee dates are a thing. They're expensive for coffee, but if you break a hundred at a coffee shop, you're probably going to the hospital.
Public parks exists. Ice skating rinks aren't that expensive. Book stores.
Ice cream!
Pizza places have somehow stayed inexpensive.
Hell, the gold standard first date: getting a beer at a bar is not that expensive, still.
If your only idea for a date is a high end fancy ass multi course dinner, with cocktails, then yeah, you're gonna have issues...
Those aren't dates. those are friends/family activities.
How many women think it's romantic to take her to a movie at 12pm for the cheap matinee show and then take her out for a $3 coffee afterwards? dating is about romance. romance is going to a evening film, and think a nice dinner afterwards. she wants you to take her away fro a weekend to a nice bnb in the coutnryside or a beachhouse, she wants to go traveling with you to another country.
You know how enjoys 12pm movie and ice cream dates? my nephews when they were children. women don't want to be treated like 6-12 year old children. they want to go on adult romantic dates. and those are expensive.
yeah, after we are married and pop out a kid or two, i'm sure she'd like a 12pm movie and going for ice cream, but that's not courtship.
this is what people don't get.
20 years ago you could go to a movie and dinner for $20 and walk around the city and do free stuff.
Today it's $150 bucks and you can walk around and look at homeless bums in the park, because all the free arts programs are mostly gone, because the artists all need to make money to pay rent.
LIFE HAS CHANGED. nothing is cheap anymore and free stuff is far more limited, but people's expectations for life have not changed. they still expect traditional 1950s lifestyles. including the aspiration for a single family home and two kids... but you have to be a millionaire to afford that lifestyle now.