Comments by "Me Here" (@mehere8038) on "The Rise And Fall Of The Mall" video.

  1. It's actually mostly cause the rest of the world build them in the middle of central hub areas, not in the middle of no-where, surrounded by huge carparks, so in the rest of the world, people drop in while passing by. People in other countries wouldn't get in their car & drive half an hour to an hour each way just to get to a shopping centre either would they!
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  2. "vulgar language" ROFL! seriously? I think your bigger problem is the chance of being shot up visiting the mall, don't you think????? I VERY much doubt the language in your malls comes CLOSE to the language in Aussie ones, c*** is a term of endearment teens use towards each other here, quite normal to hear them say something like "buy us some goon won't ya f**'in c***" reply "s** yeh" etc etc Crazy the way you cencor stuff in your country though, I can't even post that in full here without cencorship! I don't understand that! Free speech means you should be able to swear as much as you like on social media, radio, tv, at malls etc etc, but best we can do here is say stuff like "root", that apparently your cencors haven't yet figured out has exactly the same meaning & "vulgarity level" as f*** here & our kids start going to malls unsupervised at around 9 years old here, one of my friends was a little shocked when his 8 year old daughter asked him to do that, he resisted for a while, but realised all the kids were doing it, so he let her go & went himself with a hat & sunglasses & stuff on & grabbed himself a coffee while watching secretly from a distance a few times to see she was fine & then let her continue unsupervised once he felt comfortable with it. Malls have plenty of activities to amuse them, so they're really not a problem hanging around with nothing to do. Only sort of exception was during covid, when lots of stuff was closed, so they ended up in big box stores & supermarkets, being bored & loud & of course kids & teens didn't wear face coverings here & acted like the pandemic had nothing to do with them, so with a huge drop in adults going to malls & the teens still attending in mass groups, as always, it meant they were the majority of the people in the malls & the only ones in large groups & without face coverings or any social distancing going on, so that did upset some people, eventually ending up with security throwing a lot of them out & over time they just did their own thing in different spaces, such as a store carpark near me became a badmittan court at closing time every night lol the kids all rocked up, with the nets & everything & sat around chatting in the carpark, then as soon as it closed & staff gave them the ok, they put up the net & began playing & were there for about 2-3 hours almost every night, about 20-30 of them hanging out there & playing, not sure if it was the same ones each night or different groups, but apparently that sort of stuff was pretty normal through most of my city. Just fix your gun problem & you won't have a reason to be scared of kids & teens being normal kids & teens & using their first amendment right
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  3. cinemas gone? That's dumb of them! Kids today don't want their parents driving them places though, they want to be able to get places they want to go without parents cars, so if there's no public transport, of course that's a problem too. Malls in countries with public transport hubs at the same location as the mall have no problems with high patronage (although they all, also obviously have schools & cinemas & food courts & a range of other community facilities in the same area too
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  4.  @MrCleitus  feel free to deal with as much crime as you bring on yourself by failing to support policies that prevent people needing to rob you to survive. SO glad I dont' live in the US with such selfish people!
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  5. Better idea would be to convert the carpark into a multi-level one & turn the rest of the carpark (so an area much bigger than the mall) into multi-level apartments & offices & green spaces & community facilitates & then there would actually be a community there to use the mall, so it could be restored. Most malls in my country have high rise apartments as either part of them, or next door to them, major train & bus station hubs at the same location too
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  6. lol seriously? You think you invented the idea of putting a shopping mall into an area with other services? um that's what the rest of the world had ALWAYS done & why the rest of the world's malls are thriving while yours are dying! We enclose our major ones in Australia though, tried having them open air, especially in beach areas decades ago, but as they grew, they have all become enclosed & many stories higher, although maintaining fresh air flows through them in a lot of cases, in other cases they're fully enclosed, but are joined with other community facilities & transport hubs etc by council run pedestrian malls for people to walk through, that host pop up markets on busy shopping evenings, such as Friday night & all day Saturday & for a week or 2 before Christmas & roads that used to be major roads in the past have been either totally closed & turned into pedestrian only, or reduced to 1 lane only, with wider footpaths in the place of the closed parts. The whole world outside the US does this stuff as standard though, you're not inventing anything new here, other than a new name for what the world outside your country has always done when building shopping facilities
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  7. seriously? You don't have debit cards in the US? Wow! They're standard for all accounts now in Australia, parents can opt out for kids accounts if they want to, but they rarely do, so kids just use their mastercard or visa linked personal bank account to buy online & to "tap & go" for any in person transactions too
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  8. @@bikmaharjan9497 They're also at major transport hubs. They have car parking, but teens can get to them via walking or public transport too & basically if teens in particular want to go out ANYWHERE with friends, they will be passing or in very easy access of a major mall in teh process, so it motivates them to go there. The US on the other hand builds malls in the middle of no-where, with nothing but what the mall provides accessible if taking a car trip there, so no wonder theirs are dying!
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  9. You have that reversed actually. Amazon has invested millions, if not billions, into major local warehouses in various countries, so as to try to make a dent in the shopping market, but no matter what they do, they simply cannot compete with the convenience of well placed & managed malls. Online shopping only takes over in countries that have crappy malls, ie the US
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