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I don’t care where you stay on Sunday; but you can’t do it here.
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Great … so you are OK with hospitals, gas stations, restaurants, movie theaters, airlines, bus lines, sports stadiums, grocery stores, home improvement stores … ALL CLOSING on Sunday?
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Working on a Sunday or a Public Holiday gives low income workers the opportunity to make double time rates or higher. Whatever you might think, there are plenty of jobs that need doing on a Sunday. Why would you deny these people the most well payed shifts they can access?
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To expand / clarify on this point:
In Australia, “penalty rates” (e.g. time-and-a-half, double-time) for Sundays and public holidays are built into employment law for most jobs, particularly the usual under-appreciated lower-income jobs: retail, restaurants, etc [1]. Restaurant prices often go up on Sunday to cover this. I don’t mind paying it - it feels like the business is being transparent about paying a living wage.
[1] Minimum wage and weekend rates in Australia are categorized by the job you do - there is a separate minimum wage for e.g. restaurant servers, house painters, and most other jobs you can name.
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I don’t think so. If anything the argument would go the other way: “any settlement under x amount of inhabitants is a village, not a town”. Calling it a suburb is a very American perspective to this European’s ears
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We have that in Japan, too. It varies from prefecture to prefecture, but the line between village and town is usually drawn at around 5,000 to 10,000 people. The weird thing is that there are very few villages left in Japan because there was this big initiative in the 90s to asborb villages into towns or have multiple villages merge to create cities for the sake of streamlining municipal governments, even though nothing changed geographically.
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No, it’s from a batshit nuts perspective. There are communities of that size that are a minumum of 5 hours from the closest thing resembling a city just in my state. In Texas or Alaska, it can be twice that. Likewise most Canadian provinces.
Just like the OP of this topic, it’s a statement meant to initiate outrage and conflict, ungrounded in reality. It’s not meant to foster dialog.
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Many restaurants are closed Monday. It makes sense – weekends are prime business days, but relatively few people want to eat out on a Monday.
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The same goes for Broadway theatres. Which is fine. There’s no legal requirement for them to do so, and plenty choose another day to close so that they can serve customers who do want to go out on Monday.
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