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Now all of a sudden, I want to go to America just to see how terrible and horrible the shopping malls are. I'm from Australia which is full of them (though we

Now all of a sudden, I want to go to America just to see how terrible and horrible the shopping malls are. I'm from Australia which is full of them (though we call them "shopping centres"). And they seem very pleasant to me. They are convenient for many kinds of shopping. I didn't hang out there as a teenager in the '90s, but others from my school did. Since then they have become more pleasant for socialising -- though perhaps more upmarket and less teenager friendly. They have proper restaurants as well as the old food courts. And my mother's favourite cafe is at a shopping mall -- and it is reallyp excellent.

pixl97 9y ago
In general the malls aren't horrible. Since you are from AUS, the first thing you'd notice, is there are twice as many stores/sq ft of space per capita. https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/marc-squares.png?w=640 https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/marc-squares.png?... The big problem with this is AUS GDP is about $47k per person. US GDP is 57k. So for only $10,000 more earned per person, we have double the retail space. This can't possibly work long term. US retail is in bad shape because of terrible monetary policy.