Other attractions include Irish bars, adult arcades, and urban ping pong clubs.
They always have cobble stone streets, nice street furniture, and private security guards kicking away skate kids and the homeless. They are often conveniently located next to the new publicly-funded billion dollar baseball field or football stadium, where suburbanites turn the neighborhoods into a giant alcohol and piss puddle on game days.
Not necessarily a mid-west thing, but driving through old cities and imagining how nice it must have been back in the day will never stop being depressing. Taking a road trip and seeing every single place have the same exact strip malls with at least a handful of the same large chains is bleak. At least around here almost all strip malls have a non-chain Chinese food place and a Mexican food place, but aside from that it's just like subways, burger places, TJ Maxx/Walmart/Target and a fucking Panera
And all that shit in the outskirts while downtown is a husk.
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