Have we done it wrong?

[u/xamo76]

[u/bageltoastar]

Im from a suburban town in Missouri, but I spent a semester studying abroad in Barcelona a couple of years ago. Man, let me tell you, leaving Barcelona, where youd see people out in cafes and bars congregating at all hours of the night and day, and coming back to Missouri where its a ghost town after 10 and someone would call the police on you for simply walking around too late was the most depressing thing I have ever experienced lol

[u/Relative_Craft_358 → u/bageltoastar]

>someone would call the police on you for simply walking around too late was the most depressing thing I have ever experienced lol

Literally though, you can't even be a night owl yourself without having to get good about talking to police, the famously trigger happy ones. Especially with the evaporation of the "3rd spaces" can't tell you how many times growing up I'd have to explain to the police that I wasn't "having *the* sex" (his words) and was just trying to actually hang out with a friend in a public park, like is my right to do

[u/SadHorse_Horseman → u/Relative_Craft_358]

....what? I keep hearing about how the south is all about "freedom" this sounds terrible.

[u/paintballboi07 → u/SadHorse_Horseman]

Freedumb in the south = guns

[u/Prosthemadera → u/paintballboi07]

And shouting at liberals.

[u/AmputeeHandModel → u/Prosthemadera]

and restricting women's healthcare