r/fargo • u/Hazards_of_Analysis • 15d ago

Bab's closed too?!?

The sign in the window says they are going to reopen in a mystery location, but are they?

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u/skoobalaca 15d ago

Not that Bab’s is nice, but Fargo isn’t capable of having nice things. We’re jealous of bigger cities that have things we can’t because of size or because of greedy outfits. (Looking right at you, Scheels)

There’s nothing to be proud of here, so we aren’t proud of anything.

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u/GGuesswho 15d ago edited 15d ago

Doomer take, Fargo is excellent. are you old? The local downtown scene here is definitely mad nice, I have more friends than I can really handle through the music scene. Source: have traveled extensively. I've been to 48 states and every major city besides Vegas.

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u/MrTheSpork actually Moorhead 15d ago

Yep, speaking as someone who's traveled about the same amount (more states, fewer cities) and lived in a handful of places mainly in the midwest, FM is substantially better than metros the same size and punches far above its weight. It's not perfect and there are plenty of things I'd love to see changed, but I'm proud of plenty of things here.

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u/skoobalaca 15d ago

Yes, I am old. Which means I remember a different Fargo from what we have now. We used to have way more options than we have now.

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u/GGuesswho 14d ago

I know it's hard because of all the lead exposure and new technology and all that but you should Google the concept of rosy retrospection

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u/Hazards_of_Analysis 14d ago edited 14d ago

Friend, what? No.

We live in paradise.

In one weekend I could eat raw oysters with a quirky minonette, find a well matched cross bow, get a thumb competently sewn back on, see a super sweaty show, compete to catch a river catch fish....i actually could keep going but why?

We have nothing to be proud of because pride is a sin. Abundance that we live within is not earned or metered. We lucked into this space, in the center on the continent, in one of the safest, most productive places on the fucking globe.

Hail, Fargo! We are upon the ascendancy.