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Pawnshops, payday loan services, barber shops... And pubs closed down, because it is too dangerous for them to operate. Also signs on restaurants "Customer only
by elcct 11y ago
Pawnshops, payday loan services, barber shops... And pubs closed down, because it is too dangerous for them to operate. Also signs on restaurants "Customer only toilets"
- hueving 11y agoBars on the windows and doors.
- Turing_Machine 11y agoOr windows that have been completely bricked up.
- SpaghettiCat 11y agoWhy barber shops? Don't well-to-do people also go to the barber to get their hair cut?
- pionar 11y agoThey go to salons :). (Joking.)
- alphydan 11y agoOf course not. They go to their stylist!
- somedudethere 11y agoMost have the barber come to them or have a private barber in the building. My office has a separate room and a barber comes in every other week to cut hair.
- ghaff 11y agoSeriously? That is certainly not anything approaching the norm in the US.
- norea-armozel 11y agoYeah I would say pawn shops and payday loan services are the biggest indicators of a neighborhood in decline. They seem like the two predatory businesses that show up just as a neighborhood is seeing people with any money leave.
- branchless 11y agoCharity shops. Often when an area starts to fail as a shopping hub and retailers close when landlords can't get a new business in and have a void they still have to pay business rates. The way to avoid this is to charge rent to a charity shop which doesn't have to pay business rates, so they win even if the charity shop is paying lower rent than the business before. For example Muswell Hill.
- Turing_Machine 11y agoTattoo parlors. Strip clubs. Hole-in-the-wall liquor stores. Pull-tab joints. Attended laundromats (people who live in bad neighborhoods don't have their own washers and dryers, and ones that are inside apartment buildings tend to get vandalized/broken into).
- twic 11y agoWhat's a pull-tab joint?
- Nadya 11y agoI imagine liquor stores that sell pull-tabs. I'm unaware of stores dedicated to selling pull-tabs but there are a lot of corner liquor stores that are more or less frequented by people purchasing pull-tabs and cigarettes more than anything else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull-tab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull-tab
- Turing_Machine 11y agoThere are indeed dedicated stores for selling them in some areas. It probably varies by state.
- Nadya 11y agoThe More You Know I've never seen any in California, but the gist holds true. It's a good indicator that it is a poor part of town.
- twic 11y agoAh, thanks. FWIW, the UK equivalent is the scratchcard: https://www.national-lottery.co.uk/games/gamestore/scratchcards https://www.national-lottery.co.uk/games/gamestore/scratchca... You can buy these in most newsagents, and as far as i know there aren't dedicated shops for them.