re: Are indoor malls making a comeback?

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That doesn't look that bad...

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that is the best picture a realtor could find.

rent is sub 1k for a reason.

a kid got shot over there a few years ago. A week or so later I had a meeting with a customer at his warehouse in the area. When I got out, police had shut down every street and blocked all exits to one of the massive complexes

dudes were hoping the fence and running in the bayous in all directions.

looked like a scene from The Wire.

Talked to my customer cause I figured they were trying to catch the dude who killed the kid. He was like, nah it is just a Tuesday in gunspoint.

i covered that area for years working a sales job. It is pretty industrial with all the warehouses along the beltway but that area is rough and littered with the worst kind of shithole apartments

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I never stopped buying vinyl records...

but my daughter is now buying CDs...

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I have a record shop in a part of the city that's much more 20 something hipsters and punks and 30sih single young professionals than families.

Still, the percentage of younger teens with parents and groups of older teens buying vinyl records and cassette tapes/CDs (especially teenage girls and vinyl records!) just continues to skyrocket.

Antenna TV too, frick Cable

Not happening in smaller cities.

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I have a record shop in a part of the city that's much more 20 something hipsters and punks and 30sih single young professionals than families.

Still, the percentage of younger teens with parents and groups of older teens buying vinyl records and cassette tapes/CDs (especially teenage girls and vinyl records!) just continues to skyrocket.

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When my daughter would listen something a lot... or ask for it in the car, I started buying it on vinyl for her, like "here, you can listen to it here on my stereo!!" But what happened then was that she stopped listening to whatever that was, so I got it... it must suck to have "hipster parents." We took her along to Atlanta to see The Cure last year and she acted like it was torture... I get that developing a personality/sense of self and independence requires kind of rejecting things that way... I wasn't like that, my parents were musicians/music teachers and music nuts, and I appreciated all of their stuff and being dragged to see Dizzy Gilespie and Lionel Hampton and Billy Cobham, at the same time liking punk rock and stuff that drove them nuts.

But I think there being a generation of parents who did not have or keep physical copies of music has made it a cool thing for teens to be into at this point. I laughed recently when I met a 21-year-old woman who was with some friends and she was complaining that her dad was a "gamer" and how she hated video games. Things circle around.

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Not happening in smaller cities.

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Aging population, it's harder to make a living in a smaller city. I'm the only sibling of my family that still lives in our home area and that's because I used to work offshore and now work remotely.

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When my daughter would listen something a lot... or ask for it in the car, I started buying it on vinyl for her, like "here, you can listen to it here on my stereo!!" But what happened then was that she stopped listening to whatever that was, so I got it... it must suck to have "hipster parents." We took her along to Atlanta to see The Cure last year and she acted like it was torture... I get that developing a personality/sense of self and independence requires kind of rejecting things that way... I wasn't like that, my parents were musicians/music teachers and music nuts, and I appreciated all of their stuff and being dragged to see Dizzy Gilespie and Lionel Hampton and Billy Cobham, at the same time liking punk rock and stuff that drove them nuts.

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Most of my friends are musicians, most from punk bands. Many around my age have teenage kids. Some the kids reluctantly acknowledge their parents could have been cool (a long, long time ago) and get into their music. Many others just need to feel that they're discovering their own stuff.

One of my best friend's daughter's has Chapell Roan posters all over her room. I tell him she's rebelling better than he did in putting Ramones and Misfits posters on his back in the day.

I was the same way as you though. I was into punk but my close family were country musicians and I always appreciated the classic country stuff they liked.

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Some the kids reluctantly acknowledge their parents could have been cool (a long, long time ago) and get into their music. Many others just need to feel that they're discovering their own stuff.

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plenty of videos on youtube and tiktok showing videos of 1980's and 1990's kids having fun and socializing without phones and no internet. Those kids were young and beautiful and full of life and I think the kids of today see these and realize hey my parents were cool and did cool shite. Maybe a reflection for the youths today to realize you don't need technology to be cool and have fun.

Lots of areas became oversaturated with malls in the late 90s/early 00s thus lots of malls then died over the next 15-20 years.

The remaining malls are the ones that have always been successful for the most part.

I know in my area there have always been like 3-4 that have done well. The rest died off or are in the process. Those 3-4 are still doing well.