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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if dinner parties died.

They are dead for Gen Xers in the lower reaches of the Upper Middle Class.  Everyone meets at restaurants.

When I was a kid, my parents socialized like the old sitcoms - inviting the boss over, having work people and kids over for parties.  My generation doesn't do any of that.

I tried once and gave up.  I was hosting 3 couples.  One cancelled same day.  Another, the wife was pregnant and didn't tell me so she couldn't eat most of the expensive food. They left early.  The third left because the 2nd couple left early.

After that, I only did restaurant meals.

I haven't been invited to a boss or manager's house for an event/evening since around 1995.  The hosts were Silent Generation and Boomers.  To the manner born.[/quote]

This is my exact experience also. My parents were great hosts. They had fun parties with jazz music and martinis, summer barbecues. We always had people at our dinner table. As kids we went to a ton of grown-up parties.  They were routine!

I used to have dinner parties when my kids were small, but I agree that people don’t like them. People don’t want to be in other homes. Restaurants are more neutral and take less social skills.

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+1 The response to covid killed this. We had lots of big parties and smaller dinner parties until virtue signaling by isolating became an art form. DC has always been a few steps below WRT social skills and now this awkward populace is more than happy to lean into declining social skills.[/quote]

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