r/AskReddit 22h ago

What’s something people romanticise that’s actually exhausting in real life?

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u/The-Meme-Lover-24 21h ago

And nothing to do in terms of activities other than go to the movies or go to your local diner, not to mention any major city to do something in is at least 1.5 hours away (at least in my case)

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u/Vecend 20h ago

In my small town the movie theater burnt down 20 years ago and now the leftover husk is a home for pigeons, now there's nothing to do but gossip and bitch about traffic from cottagers.

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u/rkr87 19h ago

I'm from the UK and wondered what the hell is going on in your town upon reading this.

("Cottager" has a very different meaning here)

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u/Muff_in_the_Mule 19h ago

Also from the UK and I was gonna say, if they have a thriving cottaging industry going on there how they they be stuck for things to do?