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Surely you could still meet people outside of home while living in a small apartment? At least that’s what everyone here in Japan does.

by saghm4 hours ago|

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Yes, and I think that's basically what happens; people go out to eat together instead. The article is talking about the "death of hosting", which refers to having people at your home. Several explanations in the comments here place the blame on things like smartphones, and I'm presenting an alternative explanation.

by LastTrain10 hours ago|

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The percentage of Americans who own their own homes has gone up 1% since 1970 so that isn’t it.

by stephbook10 hours ago|

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Yeah right, 80 year olds hosting dinner parties.

by LastTrain9 hours ago|

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I would bet these days 80 year olds are having about as many dinner parties as 23 year olds. The topic here isn’t general observations about home ownership, it is whether home ownership rate since 1970 caused a drop in dinner parties by 68%. It didn’t.

by saghm4 hours ago|

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Okay, so what age group do you think is actually likely to host dinner parties, and how has home ownership for that age range trended since 1975? I can't speak for the population as a whole, but I'm in my early thirties, and I'm the only one of my friends in my city who owns his own home, and I think that's directly related to why I host more often than they do.

by LastTrain4 hours ago|

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We’re not comparing you to your friends, we’re comparing people today to people in 1975z You said you host a couple a year. The article said people in ‘75 hosted once a month. So you, a homeowner, already reflect this massive drop. The decrease in hosting is over 60% regardless of age, homeownership is UP in the same time period, down 10% in the youngest cohort, not enough to account for the massive drop in dinner parties.

by saghm4 hours ago|

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> We’re not comparing you to your friends, we’re comparing people today to people in 1975z You said you host a couple a year. The article said people in ‘75 hosted once a month. So you, a homeowner, already reflect this massive drop.

I also said that the main reason I don't do it more often is that my friends don't live near me. My neighborhood (and several of the ones closest) are mostly populated by other homeowners, whereas my friends live in neighborhoods further away that have mostly people who rent.

> The decrease in hosting is over 60% regardless of age, homeownership is UP in the same time period, down 10% in the youngest cohort, not enough to account for the massive drop in dinner parties.

Nothing in the article would preclude the statistic from being true if young people had massively fewer dinner parties and older people had a modest increase. It doesn't claim that's the case, but it doesn't claim that it's not either. You're presenting it as 60% uniformly across all age groups, and there's no evidence of that in the article.