>>509682043
Money.
Boomers and corpos have basically killed anything that can't be monetized. So all that leaves are restaurants and bars.
Clubs, lodges, group get togethers, even churches. Any place young folks might hang out outside is going to have a no loitering sign, and you'll have the cops showing up to shoo you away.
As for church, a lot of them are mostly do screaming about culture war shit and asking for donations. At least if you're a typical american white guy.
If you go to a black evangical church, or a catholic church. They're actually part of their community.

Oh and all the clubs and orgs. Like say. The American Legion or Masonic Lodge. which a young dude might go to to hang out with other middle class peers. Fuckin dead.

Even Malls are fuckin dead.

Gaming both online and tabletop, I think, is filling that gap as best it can.