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DailyDirt: Decaying Bricks And Mortar
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Big shopping malls were really popular in the US, but it's getting harder and harder to compete with online shopping and free shipping. The result is a lot of depressing, empty malls just about everywhere. Obviously, some shopping centers are thriving and doing well. But unfortunately, it's not too hard to find an old mall that used to be a great place to hang out -- and now there's not much reason to go there anymore. Here are just a few notable shopping malls from around the world.
- Randall Park Mall in Ohio was once the world's largest shopping when it opened in 1976, but it lost that title pretty quickly. There's not much to look at now (it closed in 2009), and it's being turned into an industrial park. [url]
- An abandoned mall in Bangkok flooded, and it's become a breeding ground for catfish. The New World shopping mall looks like an impressive aquarium now. [url]
- China has some of the largest empty shopping malls in the world. The New South China Mall in Dongguan was about 99% vacant for the first few years after its opening in 2005. (It's not actually abandoned, and it's reportedly gained more stores recently.) [url]
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But what about music? Movies? There's no stores that have those exclusively anymore.
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Later, the "youths" (gangbangers) pretty much took it over, walking with arms interlocked, six or eight abreast, and shoving people into the wall as they passed by. I decided I'd had enough.
The closest mall is still technically open. The next two, further away, got the gangbanger problem bad, stores moved out, and both were demolished a few years ago.
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For the record, I'm cool with living on a big plot of land in a rural/country environment. And while I'm not completely anti-suburb, I don't like the craptastic urban "planning" that has led to how they've developed for the past 60+ years.
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While as a person who has wide and deep interests, I could rarely find what I wanted or needed at a mall or chain store anyway. I generally had no choice but to send away to a specialty provider.
Although shipping costs appear to be onerous, driving costs are superficially viewed as being the cost of gasoline. But are much higher. A consumers magazine put such costs at over a $1.00 a mile for most cars. So a $6 box of screws may cost me $26 in driving costs, yet I balk at $8 for shipping them to me, nevermind the hour it takes out of my day. I don't even know where to buy an IC from locally -- I have to buy it online or from a catalog.
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Flattened
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This is why I collected crap for all these years
How many days have you spent with a propane torch and circuit boards and pliars?
Oh that's right, your on that Surface mount crap nobody can see.
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Re: This is why I collected crap for all these years
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Re: Collections
Electronics are worse. There is always some chip that will cut the wiring in half, activate relays without running a separate higher voltage circuit, or just can't be done without.
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