AnnMar 5
There are some great details from an old town like Stavanger. It is maybe the most modern town in Norway, soon to become a city if the climate changes doesn't ruin it first. Even if there is a growing green industry it is so small, so tiny, so almost not visible.

In this town the old and the new lives side by side, but the old is retreating. Small individual owned shops disappear or we make them redundant because shopping malls are so much easier. This is nothing new, this is happening all over Europe, in the world at large.
The photo shows a window display of a lamp shop from the 50ies that just closed. It looks like they still live in the 50ies, but I think it is with tongue in cheek ...

Edited: Yes. I thought it was Friday today. I am old and tired, forgive me 😂

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Show threadJimmyB (he/him)
@AnnMyhre in the Netherlands zones are created in town centres to stop chains from setting up. It’s fabulous
Mar 5 at 8:18amWeb
Show threadAnnMar 5
Your city centers, or towns, are alive with people. If you walk around in a regular Norwegian town you'll probably will meet a tourist before you meet a native. We don't have much tradition for what you have, being city-people. I am sad to say. It is a cultural thing and I dont think we can change that. Norwegians are too much individuals, we love our car too much.
Thinking about it, that is another old and new thing living side by side too. The idea of the great city life, the practicalities of living in a large house with two cars.
Sorry, not only did I think it was Friday, I am very pessimistic about the future.