Buzzing around

I wrote about dead downtowns on Friday.  And I claimed we don’t see a lot of people buzzing around in their suburbs.

But that’s not really true, is it?  Inside the megastores planted in those suburbs there’s plenty of buzzing around going on.

I read somewhere that a judge wouldn’t let a Mall keep teenagers out just because they were hanging out and not shopping.  The judge basically said that Malls had replaced town squares as a place for young people to meet.  Old people too, I guess.

I guess Malls and megastores are our new downtowns.

I was going to write ‘sad but true’ but that isn’t the case, is it?  It isn’t sad it’s just different.

Well, it’s a little sad.