re: #21 freetoken

I agree that in the US, suburbia is slowly dying off - as you said, it’s only low gasoline prices that keep it existing in its increasingly zombified state.

I looked it up - the Hampton Town Centre mall was pretty much killed off by the opening of the Bay City Mall not far away. I read somewhere, I’ve forgotten where now, that there’s basically a glut of suburban shopping malls; malls were opening at twice the rate of US population growth.

As suburbia sputters toward its demise over the next quarter century or so, I wonder what’s going to happen to all these places? Will they be torn down? Left abandoned to decay and collapse, a sad and visible reminder of the death of the post-WWII American Dream?