That is one thing I noticed about North American social culture, the relative lack of [semi-]public spaces to just exist.
In the UK there are countless nooks, crannies, parks etc to just kill time with people.
Even the pub is an institution expressly for this purpose. You go in, buy a pint when you want and are left alone to your friends/business. None of this “What can I get you? How is everything tasting? Anything else?” hyper-commodification of simply being somewhere just for the sake of it.
In the UK there are countless nooks, crannies, parks etc to just kill time with people.
Even the pub is an institution expressly for this purpose. You go in, buy a pint when you want and are left alone to your friends/business. None of this “What can I get you? How is everything tasting? Anything else?” hyper-commodification of simply being somewhere just for the sake of it.