Here in Utah it really depends. There’s a difference between members of the church and nonmembers. People in Utah spend a lot of their times with their many kids (Mormon) and their families. I find this a lot different from places I’ve lived in before this. People don’t nearly spend this amount of time with their family in other places.
Other than that most people go to church on Sunday and hang out on the weekends. If they have a calling in their church they also spend a lot of time on church activities. If they are church members, they also don’t drink. People also go skiing because the resorts are close by.
What do people usually do in their free time in your part of the country? What kind of activities do they partake in?
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Utah is the exception lol. I think most Americans simply participate in their hobbies, go out with friends or loved ones and simply pursue happiness
Ill try to stick to things that are *sort *of regjlional?
Everybody has a boat, or an uncle with a boat, or a friend with a boat, or kayak they use as a boat, or they rent a boat.
Also downhill skiing in winter.
Fishing, hunting, camping, hiking.
Well for New Hampshire church is kind of a dead thing and really isn’t a thing unless you’re old. A lot of churches here are closing and turn into businesses or what not. It’s pretty different from Utah in that regard.
We tend to be big into the outdoors. Skiing, hiking, swimming, 4×4ing are all popular activities. We also like to drink alcohol as there are a lot of great local breweries in the area. People also enjoy turning on the TV for Boston sports.
Outdoors, at all times of year. People run, hike, fish, bike, etc. as much as possible. Family time is important as I assume it is everywhere. Is Utah really unique in that regard?
Hiking.
Anything outdoors. Hiking, skiing/snowboarding, rockhounding, fishing, cycling, etc
I’m drinkin on the front porch right now. Southern enough?
Kickin’ it.
Sometimes old school style.
We have the Ohio River for boating and recreation in the summer. Many people hunt and fish and camp. In the winter there’s Perfect North Slopes that produced Nic Goepper(3 time Olympic medalist) and Justin Schoenefeld( first Hoosier gold medalist in the 2022 winter games). Not bad for a little town of 4000 and it’s little ski resort
In Colorado the answer is almost always, outside.
Same normal everyday stuff as most places such as read, watch TV or movies, go to the gym or for a run or walk or bike ride, play recreational sports, assorted hobbies like crafts or music or arts. Go out for food and drinks with friends or family. Garden. Play with their pets.
Plus skiing, hiking, kayaking, sailing, stuff like that. Or go to museums or theater/ballet/opera/assorted concerts. Day or weekend trips to cutesy small towns or scenic islands and whatnot.
At the beach or hiking.
My city is kinda known as a good place to raise kids, so yeah, it isn’t uncommon for a lot of folks 30+ to spend a lot of time with their family here.
We don’t have any mountains to speak of, so things like mountain biking, skiing, and hiking aren’t really very popular *generally speaking*. People with money sometimes get into those sports anyway and travel for them, but it’s not a regular thing for most people.
For outdoors type stuff fishing, hunting, camping, and water sports are really popular. Particularly deer and turkey for hunting and catfish and bass for fishing.
People are crazy about restaurants on the casual end of the market here and our city is surprisingly high on the list of restaurants per capita. We’re also regularly used as testing grounds for new restaurant ideas and products for larger companies because of our population’s love of casual and fast-casual style dining.
There’s also a decent bar scene, a bunch of different interesting music scenes, and a pretty good art scene as well that a lot of people get involved with as a hobby.
There are also a bunch of surprisingly large farm and art markets every week during the warmer months that get really busy with all types of people intermingling.
Car and motorcycle culture is also pretty big here. You can’t really drive more than 5 minutes or so without seeing some old trans am or camaro, some pre-50s era buick or similar, and about 5 different harleys and a few metric bikes out on the street in the warmer months as well… and almost any night of the week you can find some sort of parking lot car show or motorcycle meetup somewhere in the city.
WAY too many variables to answer correctly with almost 23 million people just in my metro area, and 60 million in my “region”
And we come in all different stripes.
Massachusetts — When you are a parent there is SO much sports and events.
Little kids? Child museums, libraries, farms, trampoline parks, obstacle course gyms, pools, hiking, biking, rock climbs, and all their little kids sports (good news it’s sports is only a few hours a week at this point). Also so many arts and crafts.
Bigger Kids ? More sports and physical activities that take up a bit more time.
On weekends we go to museums [there’s hundreds of them nearby], go to the beach (even if it’s not hot), bike rail trails [there’s a few hundred miles of trails nearby], breweries that have outdoor bands and lots of games like corn hole, kayaking, camping, hiking, snowshoeing, skiing, sledding, geocaching. We usually find a place we want to go and find a good restaurant near by and make a day of it.
Night time (at about 8) we chill and watch movies or a show we are streaming together. One of the 2 weekend days we have a board game or D&D day if it’s not good weather. Good weather bonfire, swim in the pool, play volleyball, shuffleboard, bocce. But, pretty reliably, almost every weekend is one museum and one outdoor event.
Weekends and summers – add lots of camping and traveling around New England.
My 3 kids play [not all for each activity] football, fencing, boxing, lacrosse, basketball, do drama, piano, guitar and do their volunteer requirements for school.
My 8th grader’s volunteer thing right now is in a org where they get donated bikes, adult volunteers teach kids how to work on them, then they work on them and give them to poor kids.
Some mornings before we get going is just vegging out, all in the library, on tablets or phone, chatting.
Taking a swim in a spring.
People in Michigan generally like spending time outdoors, whether it’s fishing, swimming, hanging out on a boat, hiking, biking, or just sitting at a campfire, we like outside.
But it’s also very hard to generalize almost 10 million people
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Hike, drink, bike, chores, uh, kayaking I think, boating and fishing I’d wager, probably cooking…dirt biking (off roading in general)… I mean, pretty much pick a hobby and someone in Washington is probably doing it.
People hike, go “out” (bars, concerts, whatever local *thing* is happening that weekend), stay home, walk their dogs lol, participate in regular hobbies, go to the beach, etc etc.
The nine-county San Francisco metropolitan statistical area is [dotted with wineries](https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&mid=1HdgEUNBwWapEv89hkTUj2Rzeyv0&ll=36.79068228456728%2C-121.585565&z=7) of all kinds. One can hike, drink, or have picnics at most any one of these, many of which are open to anyone who drives up to take walks or picnic.