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2 years of storage would run ~$7000 around here.

I was in university and I remember being in Montreal in a bar when an episode was about to air. I went to a stranger's home to watch TV with them and their friends because none of us wanted to miss an episode.

May I ask how old you are? I'm not prying, but I'm curious if you watched it when it was new or if you are younger and only know it from DVD/streaming.

I am old enough that I watched it as it was broadcast, and it was unlike anything that had been done on TV before. I don't even know how Lynch got it made. It landed like a bombshell in the midst of sanitized pap. It was gritty and played with sex, drugs, and evil in a way that made shows like Miami Vice look vapid. It may seem like half finished, trope laden junk now, but it cut the path that every edgy show since had followed. Issues like the duality of people - the homogenized surface facade of presenting how we want to be vs the inner desire and how we are just hadn't been addressed in that way before.

There is some deliberate hokiness to it. The parallel of the soap opera to the town is deliberate and a wink to the fact that every story is largely the same but dressed up in a new way. Think of "a stranger comes to town, or someone goes on a journey" level analysis. The humor is pure Lynch.

It may seem different in retrospect because it's done better now. Audiences are comfortable with this kind of thing. It was brand new then, and somehow approved by the same network that approved Thirtysomething and cut 40 minutes of sex and drugs from Scarface.

Never, ever, EVER pay for storage. Sell it, give it away, leave it, or use it. But don't ever put yourself in a position where you leave stuff somewhere you are not.

The ones I've always seen seem to be targeted to remote workers and solo practitioners - people who need some support space on a regular basis so there are service tiers and payment plans. I just need someplace to sit when the bat phone goes off. And yes I use headphones.

ITT people with jobs where they have to be available vs those who do not.

They do, and neither work in most cases.

I have used libraries before and they are great for this when they are close by. I've never used a co-working space - do they have drop in desks where I can just slip in to one in a strange city and give them $10 to sit for 30 minutes?

My need typically comes when I'm travelling and something comes up. Coffee shops are quick and convenient and they have always been used for this kind of thing. Right back to their historical origin as trading houses.

Sorry my dude. Sometimes there ain't no option. If internet cafes were still a thing I'd do them there.

Boomers are older than the 1970s. The baby boom started at the end of the Second World War and ran until the early/mid 1960s. By the late 1960s we were deep into what used to be called the baby bust but eventually came to be known as GenX. People at the end of the boom from around 1960 to 1964 or so identify more closely with X and sometimes refer to themselves as Jones. I could write more about all of this but it is probably dull. One of the hallmarks of the break between the generations though was the availability of services, notably related to student grants and loans.

Well...there is something to the life stages/cultural currency bits. I say that as GenX.

Growing up everything was about Boomers - 50s nostalgia was huge, every gritty character had been in Nam, movies were people in their 30s looking back to college, TV was about having babies. None of it meant anything to us. Kennedy was shot years before I was born. We didn't remember Nam, Nixon or the Beatles. It just didn't feel like there was cultural space for us and our issues weren't worth discussing in public spaces.

What's an antiFamily card?