“You continental types, never out a café…” This tongue-in-cheek remark by an online acquaintance of mine on a café-related status update got me thinking. Just what is it with people and cafés, and why am I seemingly drawn to one like a moth to a flame? Well, to be honest, I’d had an outline fort just such a post flying around in Notion for some weeks, but that quip gave me the perfect opening that I’d been searching for. So, now that I’m sitting in a café yet again, what is it about these places? Personally, I’ve grown up around cafés. As a teenager, I spent several years in a boarding school in Austria, in a forlorn attempt to complete my secondary education. Cafés were a staple of my time there, after all, Austrian coffee culture is so entrenched that coffee houses have even made it into Sid Meier’s Civilization series of video games as a unique cultural building for Austria. There was just something about popping into a café after school to shoot the breeze with classmates, do...
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