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9 years ago
"somethingstellar;c-15845996" wrote:
@luthienrising From what I've observed its entirely on the culture of the region not just the size of the city. For example, I grew up in what people call the Texas of Canada. In both big cities and small towns could find probably two houses in every neighborhood that had a basketball net somewhere (if it wasn't a dirt poor neighborhood and even then you'd find one somewhere), usually their driveway. And I have seen all the exercise equipment in base game in people's houses.
However where I am now its a big city thats half immigrants and half stoner hipsters and I don't think I've seen one basketball net or one piece of exercise equipment outside of a gym lmao The people who are fitness freaks either go to the gym or one of the abundant outdoor options (in the pacific northwest you hardly need exercise equipment anyway).
Gyms can be pretty popular though in wet weather in the Pacific Northwest (or Pacific Northwet as it's also known). And you can get more variety at a gym in terms of exercise -- your gym might have a pool for lap swims or water aerobics, plus different types of equipment that exercise different parts of the body plus classes. I'm in the SF Bay Area (a few miles south of EA HQ, and here you'll see basketball hoops mostly on elementary school playgrounds, though there are some lightweight portable ones if you move from one house to another, you can take it with you. When I was growing up the basketball hoop over the garage door was the big thing.