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Why Everywhere in the US Is Starting to Look the Same
- megablast 5y agoThis is the way it is in the Uk. Every town has a high street with the same boring stores.
- rexpop 5y agoAs the video goes on to say, it's the same across many parts of the world.
- enos_feedler 5y agoAnd online too. We started with diverse web pages and we ended up with vanilla facebook. Its familiar and easy, just like locating the McDonalds restroom after exiting the highway.
- rhapsodic 5y ago
- foreigner 5y agoThere's a great word for this: "Genericana". Everyplace you go is the same as everywhere else. I created my startup to try to help fix this problem. We're selling gift cards that can only be spent at local businesses in a single town. The idea is to keep places unique by supporting their local businesses instead of national chains or Amazon. Check us out if you're interested: https://giverrang.com https://giverrang.com
- maxerickson 5y agoExpiring, store locked gift cards are not more thoughtful than cash. They shouldn't exist.
- foreigner 5y agoBut gift cards do exist, and currently the bulk of them are funneling money to Amazon and corporate chains. Our cards can typically be spent at any independent business in the town. They expire in 5 years where allowable by law (or never elsewhere) which is practically forever.
- maxerickson 5y agoHow do you prevent businesses being excluded? Small towns pretty much definitionally have conflicts of interest. Also, being better than Amazon doesn't make something better than cash.
- animal531 5y agoThe same is true for consumer goods. Every year that passes everything becomes more and more available everywhere (except perhaps when some group has a monopoly in a country and only sells certain brands/things).
- black_13 5y ago
- pjc50 5y agoAnyone care to provide a summary of this that I can spend 30 seconds reading rather than twenty minutes viewing?
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- RichardHeart 5y agoEverything is a franchise, or 5 store residential wooden over 1 floor of concrete structure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-over-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-over-1). Because those structures are most effective for capital , and for fire codes.
- culopatin 5y agoAcross the street from where I am in Florida I have the same exact design (colors and all) as the article’s first picture from Austin.
- runnerup 5y ago"5-over-1" refers to building codes, not # of stories: multiple floors of "Type 5" wooden frame over a single floor of "Type 1" Concrete construction. "5-over-1"s happen to always look like every other up-and-coming new "urban middies" with 75-95th percentile rents. Generally with names following this format: "The [Noun]".