@Alien J Unless I'm wrong your heritage is from the Netherlands and I'll tell you the story about when we moved into the house we are in (one story only). We have a t.v. in what were our sons' bedrooms and another in the family room. There was an argument initially about the front room of the house which has a fireplace and I flatly refused to have a t.v. in there since we have a nice radio/record player in the room. My sons both complained because "what would anyone do in there?". My answer was "read". "Oh mom, nobody reads anymore." Really? What do you do when you get messages on your cell phones? That's different.
As it so happens, the front room without a t.v. is now a place where hubby reads the newspaper (yes we do get a printed version of the news), listen to music (one of our radio stations has a "flashback" to a past year every Saturday morning) AND has now turned into the room the guys (sons, friends & hubby) play backgammon in. So much for the "what will we do in it". We also occasionally get a glimpse of the hummingbirds that come to the feeder in the front window. And watch the bunnies & baby bunnies, chipmunks, squirrels and birds that come to the bird feeder and water.
And I am also an "alien" technically - I was born in Brazil.
P.S. WE DO NOT HAVE A T.V. IN OUR BEDROOM.