Comment on If malls continue to shut down and decay over the next twenty years, someone should turn them into retirement communities for GenX and Millennials.

• ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You have arcades in Europe?

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  • Head@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes

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• Chozo@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How will shifting away from cars result in more people going to the mall? How are you supposed to get there?

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well optimally you have 2 legs, you could use those, also public transport.

    Video with more info youtu.be/586SO9-wWoA?si=SL-vnIV14DPwFH9I

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    • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not clicking that link, you left your SI in it. Google is gonna track me if I click on that.

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      • justgohomealready@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They track you in a million other ways, what do you care anyway.

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well optimally you have 2 legs,

      It’s called number eleven

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    • card797@champserver.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It will just be delivered.

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      • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well ofc, Europe doesn’t have delivery invented yet, that’s the difference between the us and europe

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  • Laborer3652@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Public transportation. In Germany at least, many of the train stations are located underneath common points of interest, such as malls, airports, downtown, etc. As a result, they are nearly always flushed with people.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And yes, it can be done in the US as well, and not just in cities. I think our similar touchpoint in the US is “Main Street”. Guess what: they still exist in a few places.

      Time to brag about my town. We have a town center with a Common, transit hub, library, post office, government buildings. Most importantly we have a nice walkable street with shops and restaurants. As was tradition, the lots are in back, but there are also higher density housing so many people are just there and all the buses, taxis, Ubers, scooters, and even canoe rentals center on that area so there’s transit.

      During COViD when we couldn’t go to places with a lot of people, this became much bigger. My family wasn’t the only one that developed a new tradition of walking at the Common and along the street, eating outside, or grabbing takeout from one of the many Ethiopic restaurants, to eat at a bench on the Common

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  • viking@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    By subway. By bus. By bike. Walking. The world by and large doesn’t revolve around cars. How do you think Europeans get there?

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    • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Public transport…and their countries are small as fuck. The amount of people who think the USA is the same size as European countries is hilarious. Most states are the size of a few eu countries.

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      • viking@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, so? Are you going to a mall in the next state or what? Public transport connects suburbs and cities. You’re not supposed to take the subway from Chicago to your favorite mall in Seattle, just like no European takes bus from Amsterdam to go shopping in Brussels.

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      • awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The rest of the entire world is a teeny bit larger than the US, but they still manage to do public transport just fine, for the most part.

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      • uis@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The amount of people who think the USA is the same size as European countries is hilarious.

        Well, Russia is a European country. Also Russia is largest country in the world.

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