I'm just here to vent, mostly about something aesthetic. I hate how commercial real estate is used in the US. I hate big box chain stores surrounded by parking lots the size of a small town. Malls are bad enough, but here's like a worse version of a Mall with even more parking and without even the courtesy of interior decor.
For those of y'all outside the US, imagine a giant parking lot and then like 10 stores all glued together and 1 giant one, usually something like a Best Buy or Kohls or whatever.
They're always the same thing too. I've been to 30 different states and they're everywhere. They're typically a very bland beige color. Maybe another color if you're lucky. They're ugly as hell. They're cluttered together randomly to ensure maximum parking space. They always look terrible and no regard is put into presentation at all. They're just the core features of American excess boiled down.
Drive car here, buy treats, leave.
They're such a waste of space and the only reason they exist is because malls were too slow at generating profit because too much walking is involved. I'm so mad at driving past a zillion of these no matter where in the country I go. I could be in Florida, California, South Carolina, Montana, doesn't matter. Same 10 things over and over. Kohls, Ross, Subway sammiches, gamestop, nail salon, Lens crafters, dentists (??), fucking emergency rooms sometimes (???). Yes let's put the emergency room right next to the Dick's Sporting Goods please
Can we please have architecture that either looks nice or performs better functions than just huge parking lots with consumer nonsense attached
Does anyone like these things
The existence of urgent care centres in strip malls is one of the most dystopian aspects of America.
Actually, the existence of urgent care centres in general is dystopian as hell. That's what an ER is supposed to be for, holy shit!
I've lived in America my whole life and I'm not going to get used to the sight of an emergency facility nestled between a GameStop and a Pizza Hut
It's sincerely dystopian, putting a medical facility directly on the same level as consumer retail
Those urgent care centres suck too. They're literally worse versions of ERs and clinics based around the idea "what if we charge less for crappier and less service at more restrictive times" and because americans don't have healthcare, that's just proliferated across the country. It is the Walmart of healthcare, not actually a real emergency medical facility. They're basically sketchy walk-in clinics and they only ever have one doctor in the place who isn't there, so you're lucky to see a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant, and are probably just gonna see an extremely overworked RN who doesn't give a shit about anything.