Where can I live where no one has tattoos?

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Anonymous wrote:People that try to fit into a certain clique often end up doing this. Ever wonder why so many basketball and football players have tattoos all over? It’s part of the culture of the groups, there’s peer pressure to fit in and look like everyone else. The ones with enough self confidence don’t care about superficial body markings like tattoos.

For regular folks, their environment influences their decisions. That’s why it’s so important to be selective in who you spend your time with.

The stupidity and amateur psychology in this thread is amazing.

The takeaway from this dumbass:
- it takes self confidence to resist getting a tattoo
- pick your friends carefully, otherwise you'll end up with a tattoo

You seem really defensive. I don't think PP's comments are off base. People get tattoos because of cultural influences, and that people generally are affected by their cultural surroundings. If you think that people who get covered in tattoos generally lack good judgment, why wouldn't you want to avoid living around them?

This is stupid circular reasoning.

All you have to do is to think long and hard about why tattoos were so verboten in 1990 compared to today. It wasn't as if you couldn't find a tattoo artist back then. Even the hippies shunned tattoos.

Most people are lemmings to a degree. Cultural influences heavily determine what we consider cool and edgy and attractive. Most people today getting tattoos are influenced by seeing their friends and whatever "influencer" they admire getting tattoos, because that tells them what to think is attractive and pretty. It's why fashion come in and out of style all the time.

But there is a difference between fads like piercings or clothing trends or hair styles and tattoos and it's that tattoos are nearly impossible to remove, especially the more extensive they are. And there is something to be said about studying the psychological behaviors of getting a tattoo.

Ah yes, everyone is a lemming and blame any change on instagram. Keep on pearl clutching, boomer.

Well, yes. That is the point. We don't exist in isolated vacuums. How else do you explain styles coming in and out all the time? You are no exception, your worldview and tastes are heavily determined by the culture around you. Today, that culture tells you tattoos are cool and edgy and attractive, whereas just a generation ago the same culture shunned them as ugly and distasteful and stupid. WWYD.

Tattoos have been edgey and cool for decades. Sorry boomers like you need Facebook to tell you about trends years after they started.

I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so I'm not a boomer. Back then they were considered trashy, mostly Vietnam veterans and Hells Angels riders. Predominately very bottom of the barrel working class, with the exception of a few military, usually naval, enlisted sailors from WWII. No one "normal" got tattoos. No one considered them cool and edgy. There is a reason the counter culture hippies avoided tattoos outright. My mother, who was a granola hippie of the 60s, said most people saw tattoos as redneck and racist white trash.

The only reason people consider them cool today when they were trashy and rather revolting 30 years ago is cultural. And culture influences individual decisions. You aren't immune. I don't doubt the next generation will be mocking your tattoos and seeing them as silly, which is what generations always do when they rebel against the conventions of the previous generation.

Your memory of the 80s and 90s is quite different from mine. In fact, two seconds of googling counters your assertion. The 80s were, in fact, when tattoos exploded in popularity. I'm guessing you had a pretty sheltered childhood and, honestly, you come off as a bit of a nut.

NP here. Very few people with any class who were also drug free were getting tattoos on visible parts of their bodies in the 80's and 90's.

I was there; I 55 and don't have any tattoos, but many friends started getting them in the mid to late 90s. All were drug free, in their 20s, and this was in the southeast.

I'm really surprised at the popularity of tattoos still, would have assumed they would be an "old people" thing by now.

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Chefs, military, convicts, strippers, artists, and bikers are pretty much the only ones where tattoos seem to be congruent and make sense.

Everyone else sort of looks ridiculous and like they’re trying too hard to be edgy.

Ok suburban hockey dad - you look real tough in your tattoos, minivan, and yeti cooler.

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Anonymous wrote:People that try to fit into a certain clique often end up doing this. Ever wonder why so many basketball and football players have tattoos all over? It’s part of the culture of the groups, there’s peer pressure to fit in and look like everyone else. The ones with enough self confidence don’t care about superficial body markings like tattoos.

For regular folks, their environment influences their decisions. That’s why it’s so important to be selective in who you spend your time with.

The stupidity and amateur psychology in this thread is amazing.

The takeaway from this dumbass:
- it takes self confidence to resist getting a tattoo
- pick your friends carefully, otherwise you'll end up with a tattoo

You seem really defensive. I don't think PP's comments are off base. People get tattoos because of cultural influences, and that people generally are affected by their cultural surroundings. If you think that people who get covered in tattoos generally lack good judgment, why wouldn't you want to avoid living around them?

This is stupid circular reasoning.

All you have to do is to think long and hard about why tattoos were so verboten in 1990 compared to today. It wasn't as if you couldn't find a tattoo artist back then. Even the hippies shunned tattoos.

Most people are lemmings to a degree. Cultural influences heavily determine what we consider cool and edgy and attractive. Most people today getting tattoos are influenced by seeing their friends and whatever "influencer" they admire getting tattoos, because that tells them what to think is attractive and pretty. It's why fashion come in and out of style all the time.

But there is a difference between fads like piercings or clothing trends or hair styles and tattoos and it's that tattoos are nearly impossible to remove, especially the more extensive they are. And there is something to be said about studying the psychological behaviors of getting a tattoo.

Ah yes, everyone is a lemming and blame any change on instagram. Keep on pearl clutching, boomer.

Well, yes. That is the point. We don't exist in isolated vacuums. How else do you explain styles coming in and out all the time? You are no exception, your worldview and tastes are heavily determined by the culture around you. Today, that culture tells you tattoos are cool and edgy and attractive, whereas just a generation ago the same culture shunned them as ugly and distasteful and stupid. WWYD.

Tattoos have been edgey and cool for decades. Sorry boomers like you need Facebook to tell you about trends years after they started.

I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so I'm not a boomer. Back then they were considered trashy, mostly Vietnam veterans and Hells Angels riders. Predominately very bottom of the barrel working class, with the exception of a few military, usually naval, enlisted sailors from WWII. No one "normal" got tattoos. No one considered them cool and edgy. There is a reason the counter culture hippies avoided tattoos outright. My mother, who was a granola hippie of the 60s, said most people saw tattoos as redneck and racist white trash.

The only reason people consider them cool today when they were trashy and rather revolting 30 years ago is cultural. And culture influences individual decisions. You aren't immune. I don't doubt the next generation will be mocking your tattoos and seeing them as silly, which is what generations always do when they rebel against the conventions of the previous generation.

Your memory of the 80s and 90s is quite different from mine. In fact, two seconds of googling counters your assertion. The 80s were, in fact, when tattoos exploded in popularity. I'm guessing you had a pretty sheltered childhood and, honestly, you come off as a bit of a nut.

NP here. Very few people with any class who were also drug free were getting tattoos on visible parts of their bodies in the 80's and 90's.

I was there; I 55 and don't have any tattoos, but many friends started getting them in the mid to late 90s. All were drug free, in their 20s, and this was in the southeast.

I'm really surprised at the popularity of tattoos still, would have assumed they would be an "old people" thing by now.

Tattoos have been around for millenia, dipshit.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t see a lot of middle to upper class people here with them in North GA (I do NOT live in Marjorie’s district)

I see them here, but only middle to lower class.

I bet some middle have them, but inconspicuously.

This isn't snark, I promise... it's genuine curiosity.

Did you used to live in the DMV area?

How did you learn about DCUM of you didn't?

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Anonymous wrote:Tip for OP: Do not go to the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in PR. Never seen anything like it. Teens, seniors, military, hipsters…tattoos taut over pregnant stomachs. Do I have to pay for the Dorado?

This is pretty racist...

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Anonymous wrote:Price range up to $1.2M.

Any nice European city.

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I think wearing Lilly more than a few years after college is worse looking on women than tattoos. - a guy

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An Orthodox Jewish neighborhood.

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I never liked tattoos, never wanted any and never wanted to be with anyone who had them. My husband has many. I wasn’t sure I could go through with it when I first met him. He also had several removed from his arms via laser which was a long and painful process but he can hide the rest with clothes. I think he was addicted to getting them and also liked the friendships with the tattoo artists. I don’t like his and I don’t they look good on anyone but I’m glad they’ve become so ubiquitous because my husband is no longer an outlier. They are very common where I live.

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Tattoos were non existent or not visible eg military in our neighborhood. Many, many 20 something kids including ours now have them. It’s a thing, even at Ivies these days. Best to talk early w kids about placement so if they do end up with them, they are perhaps more discrete about location.

I agree that in the 80s it was very much a class thing, now it’s less so.

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When the 60-something in my government office suddenly got three tattoos, it was clear tatoos were no longer edgy.

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Anonymous wrote:People that try to fit into a certain clique often end up doing this. Ever wonder why so many basketball and football players have tattoos all over? It’s part of the culture of the groups, there’s peer pressure to fit in and look like everyone else. The ones with enough self confidence don’t care about superficial body markings like tattoos.

For regular folks, their environment influences their decisions. That’s why it’s so important to be selective in who you spend your time with.

The stupidity and amateur psychology in this thread is amazing.

The takeaway from this dumbass:
- it takes self confidence to resist getting a tattoo
- pick your friends carefully, otherwise you'll end up with a tattoo

You seem really defensive. I don't think PP's comments are off base. People get tattoos because of cultural influences, and that people generally are affected by their cultural surroundings. If you think that people who get covered in tattoos generally lack good judgment, why wouldn't you want to avoid living around them?

This is stupid circular reasoning.

All you have to do is to think long and hard about why tattoos were so verboten in 1990 compared to today. It wasn't as if you couldn't find a tattoo artist back then. Even the hippies shunned tattoos.

Most people are lemmings to a degree. Cultural influences heavily determine what we consider cool and edgy and attractive. Most people today getting tattoos are influenced by seeing their friends and whatever "influencer" they admire getting tattoos, because that tells them what to think is attractive and pretty. It's why fashion come in and out of style all the time.

But there is a difference between fads like piercings or clothing trends or hair styles and tattoos and it's that tattoos are nearly impossible to remove, especially the more extensive they are. And there is something to be said about studying the psychological behaviors of getting a tattoo.

Ah yes, everyone is a lemming and blame any change on instagram. Keep on pearl clutching, boomer.

Well, yes. That is the point. We don't exist in isolated vacuums. How else do you explain styles coming in and out all the time? You are no exception, your worldview and tastes are heavily determined by the culture around you. Today, that culture tells you tattoos are cool and edgy and attractive, whereas just a generation ago the same culture shunned them as ugly and distasteful and stupid. WWYD.

Tattoos have been edgey and cool for decades. Sorry boomers like you need Facebook to tell you about trends years after they started.

I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so I'm not a boomer. Back then they were considered trashy, mostly Vietnam veterans and Hells Angels riders. Predominately very bottom of the barrel working class, with the exception of a few military, usually naval, enlisted sailors from WWII. No one "normal" got tattoos. No one considered them cool and edgy. There is a reason the counter culture hippies avoided tattoos outright. My mother, who was a granola hippie of the 60s, said most people saw tattoos as redneck and racist white trash.

The only reason people consider them cool today when they were trashy and rather revolting 30 years ago is cultural. And culture influences individual decisions. You aren't immune. I don't doubt the next generation will be mocking your tattoos and seeing them as silly, which is what generations always do when they rebel against the conventions of the previous generation.

Your memory of the 80s and 90s is quite different from mine. In fact, two seconds of googling counters your assertion. The 80s were, in fact, when tattoos exploded in popularity. I'm guessing you had a pretty sheltered childhood and, honestly, you come off as a bit of a nut.

NP here. Very few people with any class who were also drug free were getting tattoos on visible parts of their bodies in the 80's and 90's.

I was there; I 55 and don't have any tattoos, but many friends started getting them in the mid to late 90s. All were drug free, in their 20s, and this was in the southeast.

I'm really surprised at the popularity of tattoos still, would have assumed they would be an "old people" thing by now.

Tattoos have been around for millenia, dipshit.

Yes, but they weren't trendy or popular among most. When I was in my teens it was mostly Navy guys, and bikers who had tattoos.

By the time I was in my late 20s it was edgy people too. On so on from there.

The DC area is the place I have lived there fewer people have visible tattoos.

Not everyone likes tattoos, so deal with it.

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Anonymous wrote:When the 60-something in my government office suddenly got three tattoos, it was clear tatoos were no longer edgy.

This is why I'm surprised popularity hasn't faded among younger people yet. Usually these things come in waves.

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I recently got back from Scandinavia and an interesting aspect of the culture there is how common tattoos are. My husband was like "everyone here has tattoos." We also encountered TONS of tattoo parlors, they were everywhere, not just in commercial areas or hipster neighborhoods or touristy areas. We visited some friends in a nice suburb of Copenhagen and near their house: there grocery stores, an IKEA, and a tattoo parlor.

Anyway, it's funny reading this thread where so many of you equate tattoos with drug use, poverty, and low education. It's a very weirdly outdated attitude at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:People that try to fit into a certain clique often end up doing this. Ever wonder why so many basketball and football players have tattoos all over? It’s part of the culture of the groups, there’s peer pressure to fit in and look like everyone else. The ones with enough self confidence don’t care about superficial body markings like tattoos.

For regular folks, their environment influences their decisions. That’s why it’s so important to be selective in who you spend your time with.

The stupidity and amateur psychology in this thread is amazing.

The takeaway from this dumbass:
- it takes self confidence to resist getting a tattoo
- pick your friends carefully, otherwise you'll end up with a tattoo

You seem really defensive. I don't think PP's comments are off base. People get tattoos because of cultural influences, and that people generally are affected by their cultural surroundings. If you think that people who get covered in tattoos generally lack good judgment, why wouldn't you want to avoid living around them?

This is stupid circular reasoning.

All you have to do is to think long and hard about why tattoos were so verboten in 1990 compared to today. It wasn't as if you couldn't find a tattoo artist back then. Even the hippies shunned tattoos.

Most people are lemmings to a degree. Cultural influences heavily determine what we consider cool and edgy and attractive. Most people today getting tattoos are influenced by seeing their friends and whatever "influencer" they admire getting tattoos, because that tells them what to think is attractive and pretty. It's why fashion come in and out of style all the time.

But there is a difference between fads like piercings or clothing trends or hair styles and tattoos and it's that tattoos are nearly impossible to remove, especially the more extensive they are. And there is something to be said about studying the psychological behaviors of getting a tattoo.

Ah yes, everyone is a lemming and blame any change on instagram. Keep on pearl clutching, boomer.

Well, yes. That is the point. We don't exist in isolated vacuums. How else do you explain styles coming in and out all the time? You are no exception, your worldview and tastes are heavily determined by the culture around you. Today, that culture tells you tattoos are cool and edgy and attractive, whereas just a generation ago the same culture shunned them as ugly and distasteful and stupid. WWYD.

Tattoos have been edgey and cool for decades. Sorry boomers like you need Facebook to tell you about trends years after they started.

I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so I'm not a boomer. Back then they were considered trashy, mostly Vietnam veterans and Hells Angels riders. Predominately very bottom of the barrel working class, with the exception of a few military, usually naval, enlisted sailors from WWII. No one "normal" got tattoos. No one considered them cool and edgy. There is a reason the counter culture hippies avoided tattoos outright. My mother, who was a granola hippie of the 60s, said most people saw tattoos as redneck and racist white trash.

The only reason people consider them cool today when they were trashy and rather revolting 30 years ago is cultural. And culture influences individual decisions. You aren't immune. I don't doubt the next generation will be mocking your tattoos and seeing them as silly, which is what generations always do when they rebel against the conventions of the previous generation.

Your memory of the 80s and 90s is quite different from mine. In fact, two seconds of googling counters your assertion. The 80s were, in fact, when tattoos exploded in popularity. I'm guessing you had a pretty sheltered childhood and, honestly, you come off as a bit of a nut.

NP here. Very few people with any class who were also drug free were getting tattoos on visible parts of their bodies in the 80's and 90's.

I was there; I 55 and don't have any tattoos, but many friends started getting them in the mid to late 90s. All were drug free, in their 20s, and this was in the southeast.

I'm really surprised at the popularity of tattoos still, would have assumed they would be an "old people" thing by now.

Tattoos have been around for millenia, dipshit.

Yes, but they weren't trendy or popular among most. When I was in my teens it was mostly Navy guys, and bikers who had tattoos.

By the time I was in my late 20s it was edgy people too. On so on from there.

The DC area is the place I have lived there fewer people have visible tattoos.

Not everyone likes tattoos, so deal with it.

The reality is that they were widely accepted in most cultures for hunreds of years, and it was really just a weird blip in the 20th century when white, christian culture associated them with other bad things.

But elsewhere, they were always popular for hundreds of years. The mid 20th century was the blip