VileSquirrel

> Where in Europe do you find large amounts of small stores? (and for real, not fake)

I live in a small european town and all the followings are found less than 3 minutes away from my home: butcher, baker, shoes store, newspaper store, convenience store, barber. The town hosts a market once a week that sells more divers products, and many people do shop there. Some of the stores are owned and operated by descendants of those who owned them 60 years ago, all have their owner working in the store.

Maybe you won't consider that to be "large amounts of small stores" but that is somewhat the point: all my basic needs can be covered by a handful of small stores.

Granted that type of life and town has become less representative over time, but I heard the trend is now to go back to the countryside as people flee the big cities.

I set up a redirection and tried to change my gmail address with the new one in all the important places I could (took a couple hours; now and then I notice a new one I should change). I also still have my gmail address set up in my mail client so I can answer from gmail if I need to, but that never happened in more than a year. For everyone that actually knows me I gave them the new address when it came up.

Safe to assume Herodotus would have used a Zeus notebook.