• superkret@feddit.org
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    5 months ago

    Do Americans enjoy spending lots of money on a nice night out, where you sit in front of a panoramic window and look out at rows of beautifully designed pickup trucks and acres of scenic parking lots?

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      5 months ago

      I can’t speak for anyone else, but I usually go to the restaurant for the food, not the view of the outside.

      If you can sit and watch a beautiful vista of the ocean from the top of a cliff while you have your curry and it’s terrible curry, I’d rather see the pickup trucks.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      He says, as if strip malls are a purely american thing rather than a cheap ass suburb thing.

      A lot of these places are retrofitted stores, with what used to be display windows. This is a particularly egregious example though.

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        5 months ago

        He says, as if strip malls are a purely american thing rather than a cheap ass suburb thing.

        I mean, they’re not “purely” an American thing, but they are substantially due to the influence of American city planning, which is why they’re most prevalent in places like Britain/Canada/Australia/New Zealand (because English-speaking places share ideas more easily with each other) and Okinawa (because of post-WWII American occupation).