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That's really interesting, I see it all the time in NYC. Where are you located? Perhaps it has something to do with urban v suburban v rural? Or a cultural thing?

Close to downtown Seattle (Ballard). Even on the bus it isn't a thing (maybe its our climate?).

That's weird cause here in Texas I see them a lot and the only places I'm going right now are grocery stores, walmart/target, and home improvement stores.

If you took public transportation or go any place young people hang out you would see them too. (Malls or coffee shops)

Might be a location thing. I see people (mostly high school and university students) wearing them pretty frequently.

I'd never seen anyone wearing AirPods (or indeed any wireless buds) until Apple told everyone to do it

All the wireless buds used to be those ones that were strung together at max wirelessness