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If malls continue to shut down and decay over the next twenty years, someone should turn them into retirement communities for GenX and Millennials. (lemmy.world)
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Imagine apartments built into what used to be department stores, (Oh, you're JC Penny 203? I'm at Sears 106). Get those old arcades up and running. Set up meal stations at the food court. Once people actually live there, stores will start to move back in.

If I'm unable to finish my life in my own home, that doesn't sound like a terrible option.

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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 96 points 3 months ago

Those are also the "mall rat" generations, so it'd be pretty fitting lol.

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

We can watch the original Fast and Furious, recreate a mockup of HTML eBay and put 5hp stickers on our mobility scooters with RGB under glow lighting, and sub's around our nitrous bottles.

I live my life one quarter footprint store front at a time...

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 16 points 3 months ago

And, naturally, we'd be hauling boomboxes blasting gangsta rap in the baskets of our mobility scooters. lol.

Our generation's old-folks home gonna be lit

[-] Thassodar@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

I'm thinking this leads to MegaCity 1 type situations like in Dredd.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 2 points 3 months ago

Have never seen it, but will take your word on it. lol

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 3 points 3 months ago

It's worth watching ~~bc it will become our new reality~~. A bit of a... different take on the future than Star Trek shows, think more what led up to the Bell Riots rather than what happened afterwards.

[-] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

mobility scooters with RGB under glow lighting

This but unironically. I think I need to find someone willing to let me do this to their scooter or wheelchair; I've got parts to spare and if it gets even a few chuckles it will be worth doing.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I think that’s the point.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Millennial here. Malls were seeing during my childhood and I'm almost Gen x.

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