[stephancoral]

First off - are you like sixteen years old? You're writing off hundreds of millions of people. Many of the best universities in the world are located in, funded by, and populated with Americans.

Americans in college towns probably tolerate or perhaps, yes, even like 'intellectualism'. A bar like that could very well become a community institution and reputable business. Have some perspective.

[Arizhel]

>Americans in college towns probably tolerate or perhaps, yes, even like 'intellectualism'. A bar like that could very well become a community institution and reputable business.

The problem with that idea is that 1) college students don't have a whole lot of money to spend on establishments like that, and 2) the profitability of such places is poor, compared to places that serve a LOT of alcohol and don't require as much floor space. The cost per square foot of commercial real estate these days is very high, so it just isn't profitable to have an establishment where there's plenty of space (so it isn't a crowded, noisy din), people can spend lots of time relaxing, quietly socializing, working on their laptop, etc., and they don't have to spend a lot of money. It's why Starbucks are all small and crowded, and coffee shops that attempt to buck this don't do so well. You can't pay the rent easily when people have nice lounge chairs and camp out with their laptops and only buy a coffee drink and a small snack. By contrast, look at how bars and restaurants operate: bars serve high-priced alcoholic drinks and customers don't usually stay long, and are crowded. Restaurants are fairly crowded, serve high-priced meals and push hard to get you to buy high-priced alcoholic drinks, and are very pushy to get you out the door so they can clear the table for the next customer.

>First off - are you like sixteen years old?

I'm not even going to honor that insult with an answer.