I don't think there is any "duty" to spend money on local establishments, but it's important to support the ones you like - ones that you feel you get value from - if you want them to remain. But this brings up an interesting comment about third spaces since you mentioned it. In the US those spaces typically are commercial establishments…
I don't think there is any "duty" to spend money on local establishments, but it's important to support the ones you like - ones that you feel you get value from - if you want them to remain. But this brings up an interesting comment about third spaces since you mentioned it. In the US those spaces typically are commercial establishments that have either an implicit or even explicit contract that you must spend money to be there. My experience in other parts of the world is that this "contract" is much looser.
That's interesting. Yeah, and for better or worse most places to just hang out are also businesses. I don't know if that's true in the biggest cities like it is in suburbia, i.e. whether it's about density or about America having a more commercial culture than Europe
I think there is a duty going both ways. There is a duty to walk to neighborhood retail, but the retailer's duty is to provide good products and good service. There are neighborhood retailers that I refuse to frequent. I am trying to be their customer, but they do not want my business very much.
Interesting. We have a local micro brewery that has worked very hard to have no required parking (and using their available gravel space for people) because they don't want people to drive there. They want it to be a local place where people walk and different from what you say, don't want people to come from a driving distance. Like I said, in your case, I would feel no duty to patronize that establishment.
I don't think there is any "duty" to spend money on local establishments, but it's important to support the ones you like - ones that you feel you get value from - if you want them to remain. But this brings up an interesting comment about third spaces since you mentioned it. In the US those spaces typically are commercial establishments that have either an implicit or even explicit contract that you must spend money to be there. My experience in other parts of the world is that this "contract" is much looser.
That's interesting. Yeah, and for better or worse most places to just hang out are also businesses. I don't know if that's true in the biggest cities like it is in suburbia, i.e. whether it's about density or about America having a more commercial culture than Europe
I think there is a duty going both ways. There is a duty to walk to neighborhood retail, but the retailer's duty is to provide good products and good service. There are neighborhood retailers that I refuse to frequent. I am trying to be their customer, but they do not want my business very much.
Interesting. We have a local micro brewery that has worked very hard to have no required parking (and using their available gravel space for people) because they don't want people to drive there. They want it to be a local place where people walk and different from what you say, don't want people to come from a driving distance. Like I said, in your case, I would feel no duty to patronize that establishment.