I remember listening to some NPR segment where a doctor/researcher said the first couple years is like a long acid trip. He was being somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but it resonated with me.
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Not OP, but the buttons are a bit mushy, the shell a bit creaky and, worst of all, the the Steam and Quick Access buttons feel terrible. It's all much more apparent when I pick up my Switch Lite, which itself isn't something I'd consider high build quality. That said, I'm ok with the compromises considering the price point.
Am OP, and yeah this is pretty much it. For me it's the fact that it's a huge chunk of not-great-quality plastic, when all my other devices are aluminium or better plastic. I'm lucky to have had no issues with the inputs, but they are known for having problems.
I'm also absolutely fine with these trade-offs for the price point, and in fact if pushed, I'd probably rather have a £400 device like this compared to a £500+ device with the same spec made of aluminium with slightly better inputs.
I grew up in Madison/Ridgeland, Ms, where I did experience this. To some extent, at least. I had neighborhood friends. We rode bikes, crossed the tracks to go to the comic book store, etc.
Still, I’ve always romanticized the big city. Never lived it, though, so maybe it’s a grass-is-greener thing, but maybe I’ll be able to give it a whirl someday.
Grass is greener for me, but you have to choose the right big city, and those cities are expensive because lots of people make the same conclusions.
As a curiosity, I checked out the neighborhood I used to live in on google maps to see if they had put any parks or sidewalks since. Nope, exactly the same.
The important thing is just having some sort of space, as the article puts it.
>> As described by Ray Oldenburg, “third places” are locations where locals can meet, interact, and relax in a place that isn’t their home or place of work. In these locations, kids get the chance to socialize and develop intellectually. American suburbs don’t have these places.
There's rightfully no stipulation whether that's a corner store, mall, park, empty lot, or wild area.
The important thing is that it's accessible to kids and parents aren't around.
I was recently back in Oxford and wound up chatting over beers with someone who worked with SFA. Despite living there for 8 years, I’d never heard of it before.
Years ago, my wife and I were in Rome and blindly walked into some restaurant with “taverna” in the name. We were thinking of Greece and just assumed ~$$.
Boy were we wrong. When we opened the menu we saw quail eggs with white truffles from Alba for like 1300 euros!
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