I watch a lot of Dead Mall videos on YouTube and I wanted to see what everyone’s thoughts are on why there’s so many dead malls now.

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    Combinations. Amazon, smart phones, how kids hang out, poverty, giant stores like target and wal mart…It’s a bunch of reasons that all hit against malls.

    Malls haven’t been the only hit over the decades. “Cruisin” is no longer a thing. Teens used to spend hours on nice nights driving up and down a certain stretch of road in nearly every city somewhere.

    More kids used to ride bikes around for funnies.

    Drive in movie theaters used to be huge.

    Things always change and it’s almost never just a single reason.

    • extremeboredom@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      “Cruisin” is no longer a thing

      That’s not the case in much of the rural US. In small towns (~30-75k) everywhere there are kids driving up and down the road every Friday and Saturday night.