• slowtrain33@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    All the comments hating on people for their date location choices but I mean… before I left the US in February, taking my wife out to sushi and a movie would easily cost $200. And we don’t even drink! If you’re trying to have a fun time and go to a bar afterwards, it’s gonna be $200-$300 easy.

    Sure, you could split a Big Mac in a public park, but that’s not what most people think about when they hear “date.”

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      12 days ago

      Yeah shit is hella expensive nowadays. Def easy to spend $60-80 on a meal for two after tip in a non-chain restaurant.

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      12 days ago

      I mean, theres kind of a lot between splitting a sandwich at the park, and $200 😅

      Things have absolutely gotten too expensive, but if your idea of a date is $200, probably you have the option to just go on a slightly less lavish date… You can go to some super cute local place and have a wonderful time for way less than that, even with it being a more formal date than a “big mac” at the park. Dates don’t have to be high end fine dining to be valid dates. And spending less than $200 hardly limits you to big macs 😅

      There are tons of really lovely dates you can go on for a hell of a lot less than $200. Which doesnt change the fact that things are too expensive. But at $200 it’s not like you have no other options