How many shopping malls are in your town?

NewfieBullet · Post by **NewfieBullet** » Fri May 19, 2006 12:03 am

In my town: 2

Just kidding, I was hoping that this trend would last longer.

But if the staff want to end the trend, I guess they have their good reasons...

SF started it, TD seconded it, I continued.

Maybe the mods might let others continue this cool trend?

Post by **Dogbreath** » Fri May 19, 2006 12:14 am

(we'll give it a shot)

What do you think about shopping malls? I kind of like the atmosphere of having lots of smaller businesses all packed into one building (instead of, say, Wal*mart, which is a huge evil empire building with just one big store in building), as it provides a lot of diversity and generally excellent service. I'm not too sure I enjoy the Mall subculture, though, with mallrats who walk around the mall all day, spending their parents money because they have nothing better to do.

Personally, my favorite kind of marketplace is a natural market. i.e, open air, mixed in with residential buildings, resteraunts and parks, sidewalk salesmen, being able to bargain any price you want. A good of example of that would be, say, Kensington Market in Toronto. While Malls are nice replicas, they're artificial to the core and don't really provide that free, easygoing enviroment.

I don't care about topics like this being open or not, but I *am* interested in your opinion, and what you think about malls. Don't just give a number, give descriptions and opinions as well. Thnaks!

Post by **Wally** » Fri May 19, 2006 9:21 am

One shopping completx at my local town.

Not very big. YOu can see it on the australian map. Its a big black hole

Post by **CPT Worm** » Fri May 19, 2006 10:20 am

The mall goths scare me at my home mall, so I'm in and out of Castleton Square. However, there are some very nice malls and shopping areas in the DC area that I love to go to. If you're ever there, I'd go to Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, MD, Pentagon City Mall in Pentagon City, Virginia, Georgetown and its indoor shopping center, and Chinatown. The malls are really beautiful.

However, I'll still go to Wal-mart for the bare essentials. Sorry, DB. =P

Post by **Wally** » Fri May 19, 2006 10:58 pm

Mr. Worm They are scary as hell (Mall Goths)

SO many are Totally Emo. Usually sometimes 4-5 per shopping trip to the complex

SpaceFans · Post by **SpaceFans** » Sat May 20, 2006 3:51 pm

I have like 2 shopping mall in my town

Post by **Dogbreath** » Tue May 23, 2006 1:28 am

Mr. Worm wrote:The mall goths scare me at my home mall, so I'm in and out of Castleton Square. However, there are some very nice malls and shopping areas in the DC area that I love to go to. If you're ever there, I'd go to Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, MD, Pentagon City Mall in Pentagon City, Virginia, Georgetown and its indoor shopping center, and Chinatown. The malls are really beautiful.

However, I'll still go to Wal-mart for the bare essentials. Sorry, DB. =P

Sheesh, at least try Meijer occassionally. The Wal*Mart off of 96th sucks ass dude... (speaking of which, you're back in town, right? I need to get together with you next week, hopefully)

And just to talk about how awesome Kensington is, I was in Toronto for Victoria Day Weekend, and went shopping there Saturday. As I'm walking along, I get a free shirt (a very nice one too, purple suede, wearing it now) from some random chick walking past in a hurry. Also, I'm walking along near the Roach-A-Rama (please tell me you've been there, emmzee) and see this dude staring at me from his spot near the corner of a sidewalk. I don't get what he's staring for, so I look over and nod and smile, just a friendly gesture. He starts walking next to me asks "hey, you here to buy some weed man?"

You're just not going to get that in Wal*Mart.

Tue May 23, 2006 2:42 am

You get handed purple suede shirts by random chicks? Nice, I must study your art form, or something...

As for the weed, lol, there are places like that around here. It's hard to walk down the main street of Katoomba without someone either asking if you have any weed to sell or if you want to buy some. Oh and never go to Nimbin if you're anti-drugs, that has to be the most pro-drug place in the world, with the possible exception of Amsterdam. (And for the record, I'm somewhat neutral on the subject.)

Anyway as for the question at hand, 0, that's right, there's not a single shopping mall in my town. HA! We have the following:
2 Petrol stations
A factory seconds electrical appliance store
A chemist
A newsagency
A car yard
A bottle Shop & another store that sells things like home brew kits
A air salon
The best fish & chip shop in the country (IMHO)
A Chinese restaurant + an Indian restaurant and a French restaurant
And possibly one store that I'm forgetting, but not a single shopping mall.

Though I assure you, this is not a bad thing. My town kicks arse (Read more about it here & here). If I want to go to a shopping mall, then there’s always Spingwood, which is a 5 minute drive or 13 minute ride or 40 minute walk, depending on your mode of transport. Spingwood also doesn’t have any shopping malls per se. But it has everything you’d need, it also has markets on the first Sunday of each month (or something like that).

If I am in dire need of a shopping mall, I can always catch the train to Penrith (33 minute trip) and when you get off the train you just walk for about 2 minutes and you’re at Penrith Westfield which has about everything you could need. Department stores, food court, various retail outlets, cinemas, the whole shebang. And well you’re already in Penrith so on the off chance that you can’t find what you need in the Plaza you can find it somewhere else in Penrith, and if you can’t, then chances are what you’re looking for doesn’t exist.

And hell if you really need to, Sydney CBD is only about 90 minutes by train/car from my place. So as you can see, it really does rock to live where I do. It’s far enough away from everything to be nice and peaceful, but close enough that you don’t feel in any way isolated.

Post by **CPT Worm** » Tue May 23, 2006 11:28 am

Dogbreath wrote:
Mr. Worm wrote:The mall goths scare me at my home mall, so I'm in and out of Castleton Square. However, there are some very nice malls and shopping areas in the DC area that I love to go to. If you're ever there, I'd go to Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, MD, Pentagon City Mall in Pentagon City, Virginia, Georgetown and its indoor shopping center, and Chinatown. The malls are really beautiful.

However, I'll still go to Wal-mart for the bare essentials. Sorry, DB. =P
Sheesh, at least try Meijer occassionally. The Wal*Mart off of 96th sucks ass dude... (speaking of which, you're back in town, right? I need to get together with you next week, hopefully)

Aww...hell naw. That Meijer is terrible. =P

Yeah, I'm back in town, but my car is on the blink. >_<;

Vangar · Post by **Vangar** » Wed May 24, 2006 12:49 am

Just one.

Post by **Larry Laffer** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:39 am

I know it's been a while since anybody posted here but...
By what I see here... don't you live in big cities?(I live in Bucharest- the capital)
ANYway Malls more than 12
and just take what TSM said double it and swomething like that for the others