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People who didn’t have much privacy and were too severely controlled in childhood often end up being habitual night owls. Nighttime feels comfortable because it’s the only time they weren’t policed.

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    ShadowsCollide

    This is why I’m a night owl, during the day there were always chores and schoolwork and the night was the only time I could read or watch TV in peace. Unfortunately since I work in education, I’m forced to get up early and I’m tired by 9, so I’m a night owl forced to be a lark

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    methylethyl

    Sounds about right.

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    Avi

    That is down to a T. Even though there is no need for me to do so, I get up in thr middle of the night to read or to finish chores which I’m supposed to get on with. I love it because there is nobody around to bother me, including with phone calls, text messages or email.

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    Post Alley Crackpot

    As much as it may be fun to refute this, excessive walking plus high heat plus shopping have left me with an insufficient energy budget to address much of the wrongness.

    So this will have to do: S’pore wouldn’t have late night hawker venues and Amman wouldn’t have night souks if it were only about night owls.

    But Jinbocho … might actually be one of the places that survives on late evening business.

    Oh, you would like Jinbocho. 🙂

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      methylethyl

      I have been to the night markets in Saigon and Dalat. But I would not claim that their existence negates the argument. The friends who took me there all grew up in two-room houses with no privacy at all.

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