my biggest regret in life is leaving Barcelona when I was 18, grew up there and took it for granted.
It’s not too late to return!
it is for me. I have kids in Mi and my abusive ex would let them leave. if I get full custody (in fighting for that, she is gaslighting them and alienating them) I would leave in a heartbeat.
Never mind, Tarragona is better anyway :-P
both are better than wherever I ended up in.
Sorry to hear that, I hope you find your way to a better place!
nah, hoping is useless, I’m organizing and fighting to make the place I’m stuck in a better place.
Business always kicks and screams at any change because what’s working for them now is working. The new thing feels like change for the sake of change.
Businesses can’t lead towards a future because it will never be anything other than more of the same. Like now and how it it’s practically the same social issue conversations as 100 years ago. Business only advances technology - it doesn’t improve life for people.
If your business is accessible to pedestrians, you will make more money.
Glad I went to business school for 4 years to figure that one out!
Next you will be telling me cars don’t have wallets and can’t go through doors
Every once in awhile on the news you’ll see a car that drove straight through a glass shop window front. Like the driver mixed up forward/reverse/gas/break.
judge ruled that the city followed improper planning procedures
That sums it up
Also if you run a shop it’s nice to have increased pedestrian traffic, but it really sucks every time you have to restock
As others said, obviously there will be exceptions for deliveries, emergency services, disabled people, etc
Why it suck ? Delivery truck have permission and access to the pedestrian zone, I argue that it is even easier for them because they can stop where they want there is no car moving all around and the floor is flat so its easier to move stuff.
We have been surround by cars for so long we have forgotten how amazing pedestrianized streets are.
So much so we fight tooth and nail to keep the cars, but once the street is transformed to something like above we absolutely love it and can’t see life any other way.
Not to mention pedestrianized streets like these do so much better economically.
So much so we fight tooth and nail to keep the cars, but once the street is transformed to something like above we absolutely love it and can’t see life any other way.
Things like this support my argument that conservatives are in a very fundamental way stupid. They don’t have good reasons. They just don’t want change for childish emotional reasons.
In the last city I lived in they transformed one of the major busy streets that had a lot of shops into a pedestrian zone. Businesses fought it kicking and screaming. Reading the local news and online forums you’d think that the main customer base for all businesses in the inner city were 90year olds with multiple hip surgeries who will not come anymore if they can’t park right in front of the shop. Well. The street was transformed, people got suspiciously quiet about the mass extinction of local businesses that was about to happen and all the restaurants and cafes need reservations now where before you could just walk in even on a Saturday afternoon and get a table. Some of the shops need security now to regulate the flow of people. But of course you won’t read any articles on local news about it.
