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It's not something I've ever come across in Britain. People will tend to go and have a stroll around a local country park, or just round the streets near home.
by andyking 18y ago
It's not something I've ever come across in Britain. People will tend to go and have a stroll around a local country park, or just round the streets near home. Personally, I couldn't think of anywhere worse than a shopping centre to spend a few hours walking!
- ShabbyDoo 18y agoWhen it's below freezing out and you're 75 years old, a mall is preferable to most anyplace outside.
- jamesbritt 18y agoOr you live in Phoenix and a stroll on a summer day is potentially lethal. Walking around a climate-controlled mall is great exercise.
- ShabbyDoo 18y agoAs an Ohioian, I hadn't even thought about this.
- davidw 18y agoSo what do people do in places like Norway?
- mechanical_fish 18y agoBritain has quite a few parks and streets designed for walking. Those are very valuable commodities in the USA. And, as others have pointed out, much of the USA is really cold in the winter. Here's an article about Britain's "record cold" from earlier this winter. (As low as -11C in parts of Scotland!) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/weather/article5459012.ece http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/weather/article5459012... Here's a map of Minnesota's mean winter temperatures. Note that the mean temperature in the southern-middle part of the state, where Minneapolis and the Mall of America are, is around 14 degrees F, or about -10 C. http://climate.umn.edu/img/normals/mean_temp_norm_adj/mean_temp_norm_adj_12-02.htm http://climate.umn.edu/img/normals/mean_temp_norm_adj/mean_t...