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On 2018-06-30, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote:
> On 30 Jun 2018 07:23:38 GMT
> ma...@mail.com wrote:
>
>> What is happening here (.ie) is that a lot of the small stores just closed
>> and could nt be viably reopened during the Crash. People are renting them 
>> now shortterm, run them for a while, see if it could pay. _There_ is
>> nothing as depressing as sitting in a car in a town center, with
>> everything boarded up. All gone to the Malls, which will will decompose
>> as Amazon taakes over. 
>
> 	Thankfully there's far less of that in the rural areas. The small
> shops are still here and Malls are rare outside of the larger cities.
>
> 	My village has two busy food shops, an excellent hardware shop that
> in the last decade has only failed me two or three times, a pharmacy, a
> post office, a couple of hairdressers, a decent mechanic, a really good tyre
> place (it might pay to drive from Dublin to buy four tyres from him), a few
> pubs, a bookie and of course a big creamery (erm agricultural supplier).
>
> 	The nearest town (not counting a seaside town which is also in
> good shape for what it is) sports *two* thriving builder's merchants a
> decent supermarket and a plethora of useful small shops most of which have
> been there for decades. There are a couple of spots which permanently hold
> the latest computer or phone repair service.
>
> 	The nearest big city (Limerick) OTOH is a mess, but hey it's
> Limerick - Tralee and Killarney are both in good shape with busy centres.

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