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Why are parks miserable?
Back in the day parks were well maintained by people who cared because they were a primary place many folks went to hang out.
Nowadays Xbox and the internet exist. So parks are much more poorly funded, poorly cleaned, and can be dangerous due to lack of oversight or supervision.
It depends a lot on where you are and where you go though. I went to a very nice park just last year that was clearly well maintained, and I've gone to some severely sketchy looking parks for the better part of a decade before that. As with all things, nothing is a monolith. But some parks are truly miserable now.
Can you elaborate on the effect of Xboxes on the parks budget? You kinda postulate that there is a connection without ever substantiating that.
People have things they can do inside for fun now, ergo less people (especially less kids and teens) are visiting parks. Nobody visiting the park means nobody has a vested interest in working or paying to upkeep it, and nobody is complaining about its lack of upkeep.
People couldn't have fun inside before xboxes? Come on now.
You know as well as I do that people are sitting at home on the couch far more in the modern day than ever before in human history.
And you know as well as I do that this started with TVs, not Xboxes.
I don't know man, even in my grandparent's youth, 19 teens to the 1930s, they complained that city parks were dangerous, full of trash, and often homeless camps. The only ones that weren't were parks that were in areas rich people spent a lot of time in. This seems to be the same today.
Ever been a teenager at a park? All that's there is grass and maybe some picnic tables. What're you gonna do? Smoke weed and sit? Throw a ball? The shit is boring and comes with weather.
And somehow there's more stuff to do standing outside a storefront?
I used to go into Walmart to play Rock Band because we couldn't afford to buy it.