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Southern European countries are very lax when it comes to drinking I've found.. but then these countries seem to have fewer problems with alcoholism, so it is probably a good thing!
I've been served in Italy when I was 14.. my friends went to Greece and Cyprus on party holidays when they were 15.. you don't get ID'd in most clubs at all there..
Yeah the only drunks you generally see about & causing fights etc.. tend to be the British (or other) tourists They are very lax with regards to everything here though, too lax in many things, but that's what you get in a corrupt little country where everyone is related to each other...
Hey NEI, as you know NYC quite well, I can't help but to notice that on street view the city is quite devoid of all sit-down places where you can just sit, enjoy a summer day and chill. There's no patios, no small parks, the streets just filled with busy people. For example in Turku we have the riverfront and streets lined with tables and chairs immediately when the weather permits. In Helsinki they have patios and key parks (Kaisaniemi, Finlandia, Kaivo, Töölö, Sinerbrychoff, Observation Hill, Alppi, Esplanade, Herttoniemi) where people congregate in. This I don't see in NYC. Are street patios banned and do you have to go to the Central Park just to sit down OR go inside somewhere, though it's 90F outside?
Didn't respond to this yesterday as I wasn't on the forum much. New York City and American cities in general are bad at public space. Seemed to be a bias in American cities of constructing large parks rather than scattered small parks. Some New Yorkers might dismiss sit-down spaces as wasting space for those lounging around, but it's more out of habit. The city certainly doesn't ban street patios, it's start to try to encourage them, though there are restrictions are far out them can go [can't occupy the whole sidewalk]. A document on the city remarked on the lack of places to sit as a problem (see pages 26-29):
Page 27 has a chart comparing outdoor seating on Broadway to several European cities. There are some small parks. Battery Park City I don't think is that popular for those not living or working nearby in Lower Manhattan, Washington Square and especially Union Square are much more known city-wide I think. Here's Washington Square after a 90°F day.
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Evenings are popular times to be out after a hot day, but when it's 90°F out many would prefer to be inside.
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Originally Posted by Weatherguru
Americans are work, work.
Most are still out of work by evening. Restaurants and streets are quite busy by 7 pm on a weekday. And office workers generally don't work weekends. Finance jobs with long hours don't reflect the entire workforce, and even there, just because the office lights are on doesn't mean all the workers are still there.
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Originally Posted by Ariete
Yeah, saw that. Red chairs and tables on Broadway.
That's Midtown Manhattan; most of it isn't really meant as a place to stroll and explore, while there are plenty of shops at street level it's still more of a business district unlike an old European city center. You'd have better luck finding restaurants with seating in a more residential neighborhood:
The entire Koppen classification got it, mostly oceanic climates though. London's climate section obviously (whoever vandalised it also put the incorrect annual sunshine percentage in, and then gave Melbourne, FL a little boost).
Room temperature probably rises post-shower, so maybe a bit higher
That's cool, I never really thought about it before.
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They are very lax with regards to everything here though, too lax in many things, but that's what you get in a corrupt little country where everyone is related to each other... 
