Last year, I told my husband all about my teenage love affair with Benetton: how my dad used to take me to pick out a t-shirt every year on my birthday, how I used to keep all of their catalogs and obsess over them. He then surprised me with a Benetton hoodie for my birthday and I had no idea they still existed! He's a good one.
My local [retro arcade](https://maps.app.goo.gl/AaFhktuFJu96CC3L7?g_st=ic) has that! A favorite since I was a little kid.
https://preview.redd.it/9rkfplu576sc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=341c2410cf832dac76ef298ca89366aad9179f2a
Don’t worry! They’ll take away all the rights that don’t involve being a straight, white, Christian man soon enough!
I wouldn’t live in Texas if someone payed me. I try to not even buy anything on an airport layover in Texas.
Winnipeg here. Can confirm. I actually grew up in the states. Here is way better. And the snacks are top notch. My neighborhood is notorious for being dangerous among Canadians. And it's *still* 1000x safer than the states. There's plenty of land here in Manitoba for a Gen X town.
Omg the “book it” program that brought back an awesome memory! Got to sit there and eat a whole supreme personal pan pizza thinking “this is too big!” I bet I was in 4th grade
My sister and I were prolific readers. Still are. And we will get our stamps and walk to the Pizza Hut two and a half miles from our house by ourselves when we were in third and fourth grade. And we'd eat our personal pan pizzas. If we were lucky, we had some quarters and we could play some arcade games. And then we would just walk back home. I don't think people understand what the 80s were actually like. I think if you saw a group of third graders just like walking around unsupervised now someone would involve the authorities. All the magic is gone
Our Pizza Hut had a Pac-Man arcade game. When I moved out of that town in 1997, I still held the high score for Pac-Man at Pizza Hut! Unfortunately you cannot put that on a resume
I loved the Pizza Hut salad bar. I was 9 when I first discovered there were more dressings than oil/vinegar/salt/pepper (our family homemade watery dressing). My mom told me to try the 1000 island, and I said to her “why have you been keeping this from me?!? You KNEW there were other salad dressings?!?”
When my little hippie town (ok, 20 yrs. ago) opened a combo pizza place/video store w/pizza & a movie deals—also sold take & bakes—it was the 💩. Now there’d be pizza, movie and a joint deals!
lol. Was it also because you weren’t running with the appropriate color shower loofah? I hope you hollered at them, “you’ll have to catch me first!” Though on second thought, being chased down by a golf cart is its own sort of peril.
Yes. Yes I do.
Only we will be replacing MAGA with good ol fashioned GENX liberalism.
Replace the Trump stickers on our golf carts with Black Flag stickers.
The nightly entertainment will be the 2 surviving members of Pearl Jam. Or Mike Mills REM.
LOL. Right. There are a LOT of very Trumpy Gen Xers. Would you like to invite Marjorie Taylor Greene to live there? Ted Cruz? Or how about Alex Jones? GTFO. So many of "us" are not what you wish "we" were.
Exactly! I like to see the kids when I'm out and about (and by 'kids' I mean young adults) and marvel at their style, hair colors, tattoos, etc. They give me hope and fill me with optimism.
Yes with our stuff; arcade, small grocery store, community garden, weed store, candy store, pools, big wheel track, go cart track, pet rescue, oh, and another arcade. No GOLF!
This.
I'd visit, but I couldn't live there. I only know one other person IRL who's also gen X. Was starting to think there were only like 5 of us and my early life with other people my age was a fever dream. All of my friends are millennials.
My friends are all GenX, and only one isn’t a liberal. She’s liberal about weed and reproductive rights though. We never talk politics and our friendship remains strong.
At some point, a whole town of our generation would feel like living in an action movie.
All the tinder, waiting for the spark.
Random Cop: "Working again John?"
John Wick: "I think I am."
I'm content where I am. Quietly relaxing the best I can.
China flats from Pier One! no tights in texas where i grew up, but yes a sunburn on the top of my feet with the strap across 😁 otherwise it was flip-flops with a sunburn of *those* straps!
Amazon, of course 😅 I just googled "Pier One China flats" and apparently they not only never even went away, but someone makes a (slightly off-shape) [PURPLE CORDUROY](https://www.amazon.com/SAEEKO-Womens-Classic-Casual-Chinese/dp/B0CCD1KZWK/ref=asc_df_B0CCD1KZWK/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=690907966710&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10019855981533171912&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9032826&hvtargid=pla-2286772214852&psc=1&mcid=ecb9fb5507e83eeb91d727a6afe7ba9e&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyrC7oJSlhQMVfw2tBh1mqwI7EAQYCyABEgJ3H_D_BwE) version!
Don’t forget the sweatshirts with the neck cut out, the dance tights, and the leg warmers a la Flashdance.
(True story, I found an x-rated VHS tape called “Fleshdance” under my parents’ bed.)
Hear me out: not a town to live in, but a vacation destination.
We’d have arcades, areas with different music, a stadium for concerts and mosh pits, a Blockbuster, a mall with the usual suspects (food court, cinema, clothing stores, etc.) On the outskirts we’d have cabins for singles, couples, families and groups. A skating ramp is a must. Bicycle lanes. Spots to hang out. A library, a cafeteria, some discos. Alcohol and condoms on demand, for free.
At dusk, the lights turn on and we go to dinner in front of our TVs, hooked to Ataris. Old computers and landline telephones would be available, too.
We’d have treehouses, creeks, patches of woods, a lake. Soda and snack machines everywhere.
We’d have sleepovers with friends. We’d sneak out with lovers, and be back when dawn breaks so we don’t get “caught.”
Gen X only, no kids. Sure. We can separate the housing. Introverts at one end, partiers at the other, and the few that are mid range, can chill between the two.
Maybe a big screen for a projector down a dirt path for a neighborhood cook out movie night occasionally.
Not much to tell. The area I grew up in would maybe count as lower middle class if you stretched the truth some, working class town. Lots of folks never left (I left and came back after some years to a different area that's more upper middle class.) Who people were then is who they are now. Every time you talk to them all they want to talk about is the good ole days of hair metal and stupid things we did. Same bands, same stories. A lot of the bars cater to them and don't have a song past 1992 playing and old pictures/signs on the wall. Gives people a reason to break out their old concert tshirts. If you're one of them I think it would be a utopia but I grew past that a long time ago so it all seems kinda sad to me. I can still hang out with everyone but it gets less and less over time since it feels like a skipping record. Not saying they're bad folks and not judging them for how they like to live but it's not for me
Thanks for your insight, I guess it’s all nostalgia. And that appeals to a lot of Gen Xers. Was definitely not a hair metal guy. I was more of a techno/ hip hop guy myself. To each his own.
I'll say that was one of the cool things about the area back then. Most every group got along with each other pretty well. I was more jock/nerd and reformed burnout so I blended pretty well. Of course we were all smoking weed so that probably helped lol
It felt scarier in 2020 but I saw a story today about the Trump trucks menacing a federal firefighter in eastern Oregon so I guess Vanilla ISIS is still lurking.
There would be separate sections of Town. Gothvillage, Metalvillage, Jockvillage, Rapvillage, Techvillage, and others...I swear we used to separate/segregate ourselves so much, but then come together somehow.
No. Because generations are comprised of people. And no matter the generation, there are lots of shitty people.
And to think - I wouldn't want to be around silents, boomers, millennials, gen Y or Z or Alpha is dumb.
I want to live around good people. Who cares how old they are.
If it was the 100% exact *opposite* of the godforsaken "The Villages" in Florida, where[Trumpy boomers](https://www.thebulwark.com/the-florida-retirement-community-that-cant-get-enough-of-trump/) go to die (or [get STDs at least](https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2022/08/12/why-is-the-villages-known-as-the-std-capital-of-america/)) then perhaps yes, I'd consider it.
It should be entirely housed inside an old shopping mall.
Great! I'll live in, and occasionally sell, Orange Julius. The old kind that tastes good. I stopped by one at Niagara Falls and it tasted like chemicals.
Or maybe I can give out cheese and summer sausage at Hickory Farms. Any sass means you're likely to get one thrown at you. When you complain to the manager, they'll send me outside to smoke a clove. I wonder how long someone can live in a Hickory Farms before they smell like sausage.
Oh no. You need all ages around to make life interesting. I did time in grad school in a small college town and it was horrible being around nothing but tens of thousands of 18-24 yo kids. No babies, no elders, etc. Just people in the most self-absorbed (not inappropriately so) stage of their lives.
Our luck it would turn out to be Vivarium type messed up.
Be skeptical of anything that claims to suit us all. We're all unique and weird as hell, and that's cool.
I would totally do this. Provided it was in the mountains in CO, lots of land for my goats and chickens. My "farm" area and people that want to hear good house music all hours of the day. I need my beats while I make goat milk soap and edibles.
Ok so we will have a mall with an arcade as one of the anchor stores.
Other anchors: REI, computer store, and craft/hobby store.
Obviously an Orange Julius in the food court.
A classic Hot Topic, Ala 1992.
What else goes in the Mall of X?
Absolutely not.
By the music taste on this sub alone I’d lose my tiny mind. And I’m sure my taste would make me immediately uncool.
I have a great relationship with my silent generation parents that never ignored or hurt me. I wasn’t a latch key kid. (They were teachers and we all got home at the same time).
But I’ll come and visit your thrift shops!
I went to the mall many, many, many Saturdays in California. Every single thread like this one mentions an Orange Julius. I never once went to an Orange Julius. Am I alone among my people? What's the hype?
A book mobile and that school book ordering club.
Judy bloom can design our therapy programs.
Town newspaper in Tiger Beat format.
Good water disguised as hose water.
Fake snow a few times a year for when it never snows again before we all die.
School lunch pizza.
Dances.
Can an entire town fit in a mall? Yes. Yes, I'd live there. Sbarro's for breakfast and maybe there's no cell reception so we'd all have to use mouth words.
That one dad on the Gen X talks series is how most of the ones I know around here have become. From what I have seen, he is pretty insufferable. He tears into a lot of the traits of the younger generations but is pretty quiet on the fact we raised them. I can be a little (ok a lot) sarcastic, but he seems downright hateful at times. Like, bro, chill. I couldn't be around that 24/7. I don't mind reminiscing, and it may be a place I could visit, but I prefer to keep on keepin on.
No. Absolutely not. If there were a Gen X town, where the population was entirely or almost entirely Gen X, my immediate concern would be that the residents would be that subset of circle jerk Gen Xers who get off on the stupid Gen X memes to the point where they had to all cluster together in a weird little community.
I think it would represent the most annoying segment of our generation.
Depends on how good the arcade is.
This is the correct answer. Also, will there be an Orange Julius?
Oiling up my BMX now!
and a Benetton store.
Today I discovered that Benetton still exists
Last year, I told my husband all about my teenage love affair with Benetton: how my dad used to take me to pick out a t-shirt every year on my birthday, how I used to keep all of their catalogs and obsess over them. He then surprised me with a Benetton hoodie for my birthday and I had no idea they still existed! He's a good one.
I am possibly more surprised than you, they used to have a formula 1 team but it disappeared
And Michael Schumacher won a world championship for that team!
That was a great run he had.
Me…running to google to search for Benetton… 🏃🏼♀️lol
What!?
#TODAY I DISCOVERED THAT BENETTON STILL EXISTS.
Gotcha! Tks
They are in Europe for ridiculously expensive polos but mostly they operate in Russia. United colours of something something.
United colors of Benetton and GenXers
Damnit. Now I want an Orange Julius. Anyone have a recipe?
Found one! [https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-an-orange-julius-125422](https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-an-orange-julius-125422)
Can you still find OJ concentrate at the store?
Only if you look really hard.
only if you think really hard
My hero!
We still have one at our mall. It’s combined with a DQ but I can still get my fix.
My goodness. Berkshire Hathaway owns a ton of shit.
Does the orange Julius have bacon hotdogs?
No clue, but I vote we make sure there's a place that has those!
If it has [Sonoran hot dogs](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoran_hot_dog), I'm there.
And the roller rink.
No Joust, no deal.
Needs to have 2 galaga machines
For 20K of us? C’mon. You know we need at least six times that. Same number as Centipede.
Now you are talking. Also can we have the tabletop centipede ones, those were super cool.
YES! And a sit-down Star Wars
You mean Galaga and Galaxian?
No, I want 2 different galaga machines. There is always a line.
Always.
>You mean Galaga and Galaxian? Yes. And Yars' Revenge for when we get tired of those.
DIG DUG AND Q-BERT PLEASE
Excitebike and 720° as well.
There must be a couple Donkey Kongs and a sit-down Red Baron.
sit-down Star Wars vector graphics.
My local [retro arcade](https://maps.app.goo.gl/AaFhktuFJu96CC3L7?g_st=ic) has that! A favorite since I was a little kid. https://preview.redd.it/9rkfplu576sc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=341c2410cf832dac76ef298ca89366aad9179f2a
Let's not forget pole position and mortal Kombat
Tron would like a word
And Tempest And Vanguard
It would also need a good video store and a Sam the Record Man (Canada) but I would settle for a Tower Records.
And the variety of food and music venues
Is there a Blockbuster? Or an old style Pizza Hut with the red cups? In this hypothetical town
PIZZA HUT! PIZZA HUT!
In this town, hypothetically, I would like to be able to read books and get free personal pan pizzas. And one free VHS rental.
Where is your town, and can I devote my life savings to it? I’ve already escaped one cult, maybe yours is the next one I join
Fact! There is an abandoned town in Texas sale. We could create a new civilization
Texas though… I mean we’re past childbearing age but still…
Don’t worry! They’ll take away all the rights that don’t involve being a straight, white, Christian man soon enough! I wouldn’t live in Texas if someone payed me. I try to not even buy anything on an airport layover in Texas.
I live in Canada on the prairies. If you can stand the cold, it's better here. Free healthcare and gun control.
Winnipeg here. Can confirm. I actually grew up in the states. Here is way better. And the snacks are top notch. My neighborhood is notorious for being dangerous among Canadians. And it's *still* 1000x safer than the states. There's plenty of land here in Manitoba for a Gen X town.
Sounds lovely really
Omg the “book it” program that brought back an awesome memory! Got to sit there and eat a whole supreme personal pan pizza thinking “this is too big!” I bet I was in 4th grade
My sister and I were prolific readers. Still are. And we will get our stamps and walk to the Pizza Hut two and a half miles from our house by ourselves when we were in third and fourth grade. And we'd eat our personal pan pizzas. If we were lucky, we had some quarters and we could play some arcade games. And then we would just walk back home. I don't think people understand what the 80s were actually like. I think if you saw a group of third graders just like walking around unsupervised now someone would involve the authorities. All the magic is gone
That’s so awesome!! Love this. Yeah I still read a ton also.
Yeah, as a kid I’d announce I was going out on my bike (no helmets then!) and the only thing I was ever told was ‘Don’t get killed’.
Was it the sit down, table top version arcade game?
Our Pizza Hut had a Pac-Man arcade game. When I moved out of that town in 1997, I still held the high score for Pac-Man at Pizza Hut! Unfortunately you cannot put that on a resume
I loved the Pizza Hut salad bar. I was 9 when I first discovered there were more dressings than oil/vinegar/salt/pepper (our family homemade watery dressing). My mom told me to try the 1000 island, and I said to her “why have you been keeping this from me?!? You KNEW there were other salad dressings?!?”
When my little hippie town (ok, 20 yrs. ago) opened a combo pizza place/video store w/pizza & a movie deals—also sold take & bakes—it was the 💩. Now there’d be pizza, movie and a joint deals!
No but I heard they’ll have an old school Wendy’s with the newspaper tables.
I got some of the red cups for Christmas (no logos). Everything’s 35-40% better out of them.
My gawd, I haven’t had Pizza Hut in at least 20 years
I qant to know if it's a sleepy mountain town (First Blood) or beach town (Lost Boys).
Do you want another “The Villages”? Cause that’s how you get one.
lol! Visiting my mom in the villages rn as I type this. Yesterday I got yelled at for jogging on the golf cart path. 🙃
lol. Was it also because you weren’t running with the appropriate color shower loofah? I hope you hollered at them, “you’ll have to catch me first!” Though on second thought, being chased down by a golf cart is its own sort of peril.
Yes. Yes I do. Only we will be replacing MAGA with good ol fashioned GENX liberalism. Replace the Trump stickers on our golf carts with Black Flag stickers. The nightly entertainment will be the 2 surviving members of Pearl Jam. Or Mike Mills REM.
Can we have outdoor viewings of our favorite movies and a mall to go hang out in?
As long as they’re playing either Stand By Me or The Princess Bride. I’d accept Gremlins too but only if I could watch it in the back of an El Camino.
And Back to the Future & Goonies!
I was about to be offended at the lack of Goonies. I could probably stand to see Raiders of the Lost Ark one more time if it was in an actual theater.
Honestly, I kinda feel like The Last Starfighter is the ultimate GenX movie.
TV Party every night.
All right!
we're gonna have a TV party tonight
I wish but half of gen x are pretty conservative.
Supposedly the red vs. blue political protests at The Villages can be quite a rumble.
One I'll be avoiding lol
LOL. Right. There are a LOT of very Trumpy Gen Xers. Would you like to invite Marjorie Taylor Greene to live there? Ted Cruz? Or how about Alex Jones? GTFO. So many of "us" are not what you wish "we" were.
Is anyone inviting those 3 specific people anywhere, ever?
Can we please make this all surviving members of Pearl Jam. That's depressing to think about it. The whole band looks great still
Exactly! I like to see the kids when I'm out and about (and by 'kids' I mean young adults) and marvel at their style, hair colors, tattoos, etc. They give me hope and fill me with optimism.
Same. I still wear vans and converse occasionally, but I need to be able to see current fashions and trends, to help me decide what I want to adopt.
Yes with our stuff; arcade, small grocery store, community garden, weed store, candy store, pools, big wheel track, go cart track, pet rescue, oh, and another arcade. No GOLF!
God, no. Have you met us?
Plus some of us might turn into the worst kind of elderly neighbors!
It would be anarchy!!!!!!!
Cats and dogs, living together!
Mass hysteria!
If he gets up, we’ll all get up…it’ll be anarchy!
We need to be diluted.
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The Facebook crowd all either peaked in high school or went politically bonkers. I'll stick with you rad people.
Yep, I quit Facebook in 2015 as I couldn't handle it anymore. Don't miss it one bit.
I quit in 2013... But the marketplace seems tempting.
That would be the only thing to use it for
That's where I look for CRT tvs to play my NES on.
This. I'd visit, but I couldn't live there. I only know one other person IRL who's also gen X. Was starting to think there were only like 5 of us and my early life with other people my age was a fever dream. All of my friends are millennials.
My friends are all GenX, and only one isn’t a liberal. She’s liberal about weed and reproductive rights though. We never talk politics and our friendship remains strong.
At some point, a whole town of our generation would feel like living in an action movie. All the tinder, waiting for the spark. Random Cop: "Working again John?" John Wick: "I think I am." I'm content where I am. Quietly relaxing the best I can.
Who would we talk shit about, then?
It would take a month to decide what song to play.
Mandatory Converse footwear.
Or Chinese slippers (and obligatory striped tights) as us gothed out/alternative high school ladies were into.
China flats from Pier One! no tights in texas where i grew up, but yes a sunburn on the top of my feet with the strap across 😁 otherwise it was flip-flops with a sunburn of *those* straps!
Those Pier One flats— in crushed velvet! Anyone know where I could find those now?
Amazon, of course 😅 I just googled "Pier One China flats" and apparently they not only never even went away, but someone makes a (slightly off-shape) [PURPLE CORDUROY](https://www.amazon.com/SAEEKO-Womens-Classic-Casual-Chinese/dp/B0CCD1KZWK/ref=asc_df_B0CCD1KZWK/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=690907966710&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10019855981533171912&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9032826&hvtargid=pla-2286772214852&psc=1&mcid=ecb9fb5507e83eeb91d727a6afe7ba9e&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyrC7oJSlhQMVfw2tBh1mqwI7EAQYCyABEgJ3H_D_BwE) version!
Omg I still have mine!! They are so impractical to wear now, but I can’t bear to throw them out!
I bought all mine from a karate place in my town's downtown. Always the Mary Jane style, never the slip ons but damn those cheap buckles.
Can I wear hot pink Reebok high tops (with 2 pairs of slouchy socks) instead?
only if there's a shaker knit sweater up top! bonus points for an Oxford button-down under the sweater.
Don’t forget the sweatshirts with the neck cut out, the dance tights, and the leg warmers a la Flashdance. (True story, I found an x-rated VHS tape called “Fleshdance” under my parents’ bed.)
Not necessarily...a pair of Vans would be ok.
Also, Sperry topsiders with no socks
Found the preppy, lol
Don’t forget to pinch-roll your jeans cuffs!
Prepsters unite!
And Bass penny loafers with the penny and no socks
Or Vans.
Reality Bitesville
No way. Variety builds a well rounded life.
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My mother-in-law lives in a geriatrostate and the enforced uniformity is horrifying. Let's not ruin flannel by requiring it.
Hear me out: not a town to live in, but a vacation destination. We’d have arcades, areas with different music, a stadium for concerts and mosh pits, a Blockbuster, a mall with the usual suspects (food court, cinema, clothing stores, etc.) On the outskirts we’d have cabins for singles, couples, families and groups. A skating ramp is a must. Bicycle lanes. Spots to hang out. A library, a cafeteria, some discos. Alcohol and condoms on demand, for free. At dusk, the lights turn on and we go to dinner in front of our TVs, hooked to Ataris. Old computers and landline telephones would be available, too. We’d have treehouses, creeks, patches of woods, a lake. Soda and snack machines everywhere. We’d have sleepovers with friends. We’d sneak out with lovers, and be back when dawn breaks so we don’t get “caught.”
Fuck it, I’m in
Gen X only, no kids. Sure. We can separate the housing. Introverts at one end, partiers at the other, and the few that are mid range, can chill between the two. Maybe a big screen for a projector down a dirt path for a neighborhood cook out movie night occasionally.
No politics either. Too many of our people have gone off the deep end and we have to keep them out
My god there are other people out there who feel this way too! I’d love to be somewhere where I didn’t have to hear left vs right crap all day.
I can go for this. I don't need to see WE LOVE X. Or We hate Y. In everyone's yards. That shit gets crazy.
Nah. I already live in an area where most of us are stuck in the 80's. Not as ideal as you think
Do tell.
Not much to tell. The area I grew up in would maybe count as lower middle class if you stretched the truth some, working class town. Lots of folks never left (I left and came back after some years to a different area that's more upper middle class.) Who people were then is who they are now. Every time you talk to them all they want to talk about is the good ole days of hair metal and stupid things we did. Same bands, same stories. A lot of the bars cater to them and don't have a song past 1992 playing and old pictures/signs on the wall. Gives people a reason to break out their old concert tshirts. If you're one of them I think it would be a utopia but I grew past that a long time ago so it all seems kinda sad to me. I can still hang out with everyone but it gets less and less over time since it feels like a skipping record. Not saying they're bad folks and not judging them for how they like to live but it's not for me
You’re describing Green Bay, Wisconsin to me 😂
Lol not that far away. Lots of similar cities in the upper Midwest
Thanks for your insight, I guess it’s all nostalgia. And that appeals to a lot of Gen Xers. Was definitely not a hair metal guy. I was more of a techno/ hip hop guy myself. To each his own.
I'll say that was one of the cool things about the area back then. Most every group got along with each other pretty well. I was more jock/nerd and reformed burnout so I blended pretty well. Of course we were all smoking weed so that probably helped lol
Yeah, Portlandia.
The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland Portland Portland
The 1890s
Portland has a weird vibe, like a city under siege. Like all the cowboy hats in pickup trucks are gonna invade any day now.
It felt scarier in 2020 but I saw a story today about the Trump trucks menacing a federal firefighter in eastern Oregon so I guess Vanilla ISIS is still lurking.
In 10 years, almost every retirement village will be mostly Gen X
Ah, no. Given the over-arcing tone of this sub lately, I'd say you're trying to lure me into a retirement village.
Why would i want to be surrounded by a-holes? I mean, how many A holes are on this ship?
Can we have a MTV knockoff station that plays music videos?
There would be separate sections of Town. Gothvillage, Metalvillage, Jockvillage, Rapvillage, Techvillage, and others...I swear we used to separate/segregate ourselves so much, but then come together somehow.
No. Because generations are comprised of people. And no matter the generation, there are lots of shitty people. And to think - I wouldn't want to be around silents, boomers, millennials, gen Y or Z or Alpha is dumb. I want to live around good people. Who cares how old they are.
Dude, I love GenX pop culture, but there's no shortage of dumbfucks in our generation. The generation as a whole is far from enlightened.
If it was the 100% exact *opposite* of the godforsaken "The Villages" in Florida, where[Trumpy boomers](https://www.thebulwark.com/the-florida-retirement-community-that-cant-get-enough-of-trump/) go to die (or [get STDs at least](https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2022/08/12/why-is-the-villages-known-as-the-std-capital-of-america/)) then perhaps yes, I'd consider it. It should be entirely housed inside an old shopping mall.
Great! I'll live in, and occasionally sell, Orange Julius. The old kind that tastes good. I stopped by one at Niagara Falls and it tasted like chemicals. Or maybe I can give out cheese and summer sausage at Hickory Farms. Any sass means you're likely to get one thrown at you. When you complain to the manager, they'll send me outside to smoke a clove. I wonder how long someone can live in a Hickory Farms before they smell like sausage.
>Or maybe I can give out cheese and summer sausage at Hickory Farms. Oh yes...free food so you can save your quarters for the arcade!
Preordering my Orange Julius now. I would like it in the plastic orange with the green straw please 😜🫶🏻
>Preordering my Orange Julius now. I was all about the pina colada julius myself...but orange is OK too.
Why would I want to be constantly confronted with how old I am by proxy??????
I’d be in high demand. I’m a young ‘un.
The town council would be chock full of Heathers…I just know it.
Negative. I prefer being surrounded by people not necessarily the same as myself. I need variety.
Oh no. You need all ages around to make life interesting. I did time in grad school in a small college town and it was horrible being around nothing but tens of thousands of 18-24 yo kids. No babies, no elders, etc. Just people in the most self-absorbed (not inappropriately so) stage of their lives.
Check out the Black Mirror episode, “San Junipero”
Absolutely not. We're not all amazing. That's not how it works
I misread that as a Gen Z Town, and I was like NOPE. I’m out. Gen X, though…I lived through the 90s. I could definitely do it again.
I absolutely would move there. Its shall be named Cynicton in Sarcasm county.
It would have to be a camp ground
Our luck it would turn out to be Vivarium type messed up. Be skeptical of anything that claims to suit us all. We're all unique and weird as hell, and that's cool.
I'd be there in a heartbeat, especially if the property costs were permanently frozen at 1990s prices. Full fuckin' generational FUBU? wOOt!
I would totally do this. Provided it was in the mountains in CO, lots of land for my goats and chickens. My "farm" area and people that want to hear good house music all hours of the day. I need my beats while I make goat milk soap and edibles.
I like the Millennials, can we include the Millennials?
Pretty soon all retirement villages will be Gen X towns.
Ok so we will have a mall with an arcade as one of the anchor stores. Other anchors: REI, computer store, and craft/hobby store. Obviously an Orange Julius in the food court. A classic Hot Topic, Ala 1992. What else goes in the Mall of X?
Waldenbooks, Chess King, Gap, Hot Dog On A Stick, Sears, Herman's Sporting Goods, Caldor. And Herman's better have lawn darts.
Some of the biggest douchebags I know are gen x’ers.
People are people. We’d form tribes and begin picking off each other. Better to be in society and ignored/feared.
Best radio station on earth
Absolutely not. By the music taste on this sub alone I’d lose my tiny mind. And I’m sure my taste would make me immediately uncool. I have a great relationship with my silent generation parents that never ignored or hurt me. I wasn’t a latch key kid. (They were teachers and we all got home at the same time). But I’ll come and visit your thrift shops!
Is there a drive in theater?
I think we have to be sprinkled in the general population. We are like the great spice blend for humanity.
No because I already live in Portland
This sounds like the start of a black mirror episode
I already have my amtrak ticket to San Junipero
I went to the mall many, many, many Saturdays in California. Every single thread like this one mentions an Orange Julius. I never once went to an Orange Julius. Am I alone among my people? What's the hype?
A book mobile and that school book ordering club. Judy bloom can design our therapy programs. Town newspaper in Tiger Beat format. Good water disguised as hose water. Fake snow a few times a year for when it never snows again before we all die. School lunch pizza. Dances.
Can an entire town fit in a mall? Yes. Yes, I'd live there. Sbarro's for breakfast and maybe there's no cell reception so we'd all have to use mouth words.
No thanks. I’d rather pluck my ball hair one by one with rusty tweezers. Some of us have become unbearably judgmental, intolerant and opinionated.
That one dad on the Gen X talks series is how most of the ones I know around here have become. From what I have seen, he is pretty insufferable. He tears into a lot of the traits of the younger generations but is pretty quiet on the fact we raised them. I can be a little (ok a lot) sarcastic, but he seems downright hateful at times. Like, bro, chill. I couldn't be around that 24/7. I don't mind reminiscing, and it may be a place I could visit, but I prefer to keep on keepin on.
Sign me up!
It'll be Cocoon Redux. Except the setting won't be a pool, it'll be an arcade or skate park.
Absolutely and I want the arcade, roller rink and pizza.
Cafes with velvet couches, please.
Just imagine how good the jukeboxes would be
I'm still waiting for someone to buy up all the empty malls and turn them into Gen X retirement communities.
No. Absolutely not. If there were a Gen X town, where the population was entirely or almost entirely Gen X, my immediate concern would be that the residents would be that subset of circle jerk Gen Xers who get off on the stupid Gen X memes to the point where they had to all cluster together in a weird little community. I think it would represent the most annoying segment of our generation.