I have recently had cause to to be in three British town or cities recently for shopping purposes ... one was quite small, one medium sized, and the last was a major city. One thing struck me about all of them.
The high streets were all squalid depressing affairs. I don't mean so much the architecture, although they all looked a bit run down. Many of the shops in the smallest high street were closed, or charity shops, but it wasn't that which struck me the most.
No, it was the numbers of apparently aimless, and I assume unemployed, younger men and women to be seen in every one of them.
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| Empty Shops ... A Feature Of Many High Street These Days. |
The high streets were all squalid depressing affairs. I don't mean so much the architecture, although they all looked a bit run down. Many of the shops in the smallest high street were closed, or charity shops, but it wasn't that which struck me the most.
No, it was the numbers of apparently aimless, and I assume unemployed, younger men and women to be seen in every one of them.
