What age range do you think certain party atmospheres are suited to?

[kaylan]

Im 25, and I was a late bloomer. I didnt start partying until right before I turned 23. I still love to go out to drink and dance with friends. You know, typical bar and club nights. And this summer is going to be fierce since an old classmate is moving to my area soon. For some reason though I cant shake the feeling that society is starting to dub me as too old for partying. I still love it though. I enjoy dancing, and seeing women out and about, and just mingling with friends. It may sound immature, but ever see the TV show Workaholics? Thats how I wanna live haha. I want to work during the week...make my money, have a nice home, and then tear it up on the weekends at the club, bar, or playing shows.

 

Im also into dubstep and happy hardcore so I want to do the rave thing a few more times in the future. And tbh I still want to experiment with a couple of party drugs Ive never tried. Im not sure if I ever will try them considering how paranoid I am about chemicals, but its a possibility. Part of me feels I should have gotten this type of partying out of my system in my late teens and early 20s...however I didnt find I loved electronic music till a couple of years back...and the scene in NY has a lot of people my age in it.

 

I always got the feeling that partying was for the 18 to 26 crowd....and that by ones late 20s you should be settled into a relationship so you can be primed for marriage in your 30s. The thing is, lately, Im not sure about the whole LTR thing. I go through moods where it sounds great, and I want affection and love....but then I get it moods where an LTR sounds annoying and I want the freedom to party and meet new women and dance with my friends.

 

Ideally Id love to have a girlfriend whod go out dancing with me, and would let lose as if we are still single. I dont like how people tend to stop going out and get all boring in relationships. Id love to take a girl out with all of my friends, bug out, drink, dance, make out on the wall, and go home happy. The thing is though, relationships seem like "fun death" from what Ive seen. I start seeing some of my friends less, they stop coming out with everyone, and they just get boring. I dont want that.

Edited April 26, 2012 by kaylan

[january2011]

It depends. I think that clubs and bars tend to be for the much younger crowd but it also depends on the club and bar - I gather the culture for these places can also vary according to geographical location.

 

Might be a generational thing, but I don't know many people who partied beyond their mid to late 20s. It's tough when you've got a full day of work the next day and your recovery time has increased. Not many people in my peer group want to spend their entire weekend trying to recover from a bad Friday night. And many are married with kids. Besides, no one wants to be the oldest swinger in town. I knew that my clubbing and bar-hopping days were over when everyone at the venues I visited looked like they were barely out of nappies.

[ThaWholigan]

I was a little late, I started when I went to Uni. Before that, the only club/party type places I used to go to were ones I were performing at. I went to lots of house parties though, very often in fact, even though I felt uncomfortable at times. I liked watching the girls dancing, but I couldn't dance (still can't ) so I was pretty much a wallflower in my younger days.

 

As I got older, I started forcing myself to go and actually started enjoying myself. I think I will continue to do it and go to parties that require slightly older people as I get on in my age.

 

I think definitely the 18-30 range is about it really.

[zengirl]

Depends on the type of club, honestly. Dance clubs? 25 is pushing it on a weeknight -- there may be a few where you'll even see married couples on the weekends (there are a couple here). The ones more likely to have people in their mid to late 20s here are the only ones I'd go to, and they either have live music or kind of the 90s music hipster scene. Beer bars and lounges and pubs and so forth are full of people my age and even much older (25-40, I'd say, on average but some older folks too and the occasional young-un).

 

Hubby and I go out a fair amount, for a pub crawl or a beer fest or live music or something, but we don't go out dancing or raving or whatnot -- that's not our scene. Most good live music hits during the week somehow (just our luck) so we even step out on a weekday, if we can manage the hours.

 

We have friends who are married with kids and in their mid-30s who join us at the beer bar or for beer fest or whatever. Clubbing has never been my scene, though, so not sure about it, really. Pubs are more my style.

[InJest]

Everyone parties. I didn't realize it until I got into the corporate realm, but older people love to get trashed. Don't confine yourself to what you think you're supposed to do. This is kinda the point I was trying to make to you when you first started posting here. Remember it was a spat where we kept going back and forth about the importance of college and what not? I could tell you were just regurgitating what you've been told your whole life. Figure out what you want to do, and do it.

 

Just do your thing and have fun. You'll naturally run into like minded people, and that's when it gets really fun.

[veggirl]

It's fine, you are not too old. Too old to do it every Tues-Sunday, sure, but too old for a night out to the club or bar on the weekend? No way dude. You can do that as long as you want. I see older people at bars, I see them dancing, I don't see anyone judging? I mean, yeah if you're hanging out at a college bar with 22 yr olds when you are 35--weird. But many bars / clubs have more diversity than just college kids. I'm 29 and while I don't go out dancing much anymore, I did up until I met my BF which was only 10 mos ago, so I was going out dancing at 28

 

Now when I go out, it's for a few drinks and it's to dive bars, but if I wanted to go dance, I wouldn't feel awkward going to a club.

 

I'm not ever having kids, so I will probably be popping into the occasional bar for a crazy night til I'm OLD! I'm not really concerned about how that looks to others, lol, there's nothing wrong with a night out.

 

At 25 you are def still allowed to spend your summer partying. Me I'm too old for THAT now, but you're NEVER too old to party occasionally in general. Shoot some of the early 50s folks I used to work in an office with were the craziest ones.

[Lil1]

Kaylan you're still young so yes, you are allowed to party it up! I was a late partier too. I really didn't party much in college cause I was paying my own way and working two jobs so I really took my studies seriously. Also I was just not drwan to the whole frat/sorority scene.I actually didn't really start partying hard until I was 24. I went buckwild crazy bananas and it was FUN! Now that I'm 30 that whole lifestyle is just plain old tired. You'll most likely discover this as well and start getting into more worthwhile endeavors as you mature (not implying you're immature at all).

 

I say go out, have fun, get it out of your system, and don't worry about LTRs for now. If you meet someone ooober special then great, let things develop naturally but don't stop doing you and being you. This is YOUR time to figure yourself out. Once you are in your 30s then you can think about the more serious 'grown-up' bs.

Edited April 26, 2012 by Lil1

[Bob_Funk]

If you're male and over 30, you're f*cked. I'm also in my mid 20's and feel like I'm in a race against time. As brutal as the bar/club scene is now, it's only going to get worse with age.

[Jane2011]

I "went out" most the year I was 27. It got old for me very fast, but only the frequency of it. I still like to go out; it's just that I prefer once or twice a month now as opposed to a few times a week.

 

I don't think I'll ever not want to have nights out at any kind of place -- be it casual pub, crazy hoppin' dance club, live music venue, etc.; as I said, it's just a matter of frequency.

 

I think my favorite way to see friends is some type of event -- a festival, a live music show, dinner, hanging at coffee shop, etc. I'm not into dance places that much, although I think everyone should go dancing every so often.

[Woggle]

I am 33 and still go out. Not to pick up women because I am married but I enjoy getting out and enjoying life.

[iris219]

Of course older people party (not all of them, but many). I have friends in their 30s, 40s, and 50s who like to go out. I have these married friends in their early 40s who don't go out much as much as they used to (they have kids), but when they do they get more wild than anyone I know! They just don't don't go to college bars/clubs. The venues you frequent will probably begin to change.

 

I'm 33 and I go out a lot more than I did when I was 23. The places I go have an age range of about 25-45. I rarely go to dance clubs, but if I did, I'd go to ones that cater to an older crowd.

[xxoo]

If you look around the club and no one is over 26.....then that is probably the limit for that scene

 

But certainly many of us over 26 like to dance, drink, and party!

 

I don't go dancing often, but when I do I like to go to gay bars with my girlfriends. The music is great, and it is a very "adult" crowd. Men and women from 20s-60s are common. Surely there is a straight equivalent.

[threebyfate]

The ex-husband and I and friends continued clubbing here and there, into our late twenties and early thirties, although getting hammered wasn't my thing. The ex used to drink more. The clubs frequented were usually upscale, with an older crowd.

 

Every-so-often, my current husband and I still go to sports bars.