so I want to take a trip. but I do NOT want to go to anywhere in the world that has been taken over by Walmart’s and whatnot…

I went to Mexico the last time, was driving around… bam… giant Walmart. why… why does everything need to look the same, sell the same junk.

is there a list of cities, countries that are still… good that haven’t been visually infected with corporate American trash stores?

  • Tuukka R@piefed.eeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    In most of Europe you can easily live all your life without seeing those, but they do exist.

    My country, Finland, is probably the most hypermarket-based society in Europe, so maybe you’ll want to steer clear of here if you don’t like hypermarkets :D

    Here’s something scary for you from the capital of Finland, from what I would consider urban area:

    A windowless hypermarket with a big street intersection in front of it

    All of the ex eastern bloc countries in Europe live in a somewhat similar way, but they don’t have it as bad regarding this as Finland does.

    Here’s an example from Poland:
    A parking lot of a Carrefour in Poland

    In Poland those don’t exist half as close to city centres as in Finland, though, so it’s easy to be safe from them!

    Portugal, southern half of Italy, Greece, and actually probably all of Balkan countries have it very well in this regard! I love the tiny shops in those parts of Europe! :)