Source please. My experience, with my friends and coworkers, is that nobody leaves downtown to shop if they can avoid it. It is quite possible that False Consensus effect is coming in to play here:
I don't mean to be rude, I just think you (and perhaps me too!) may have some inaccurate assumptions about how people behave. You shop in the burbs. I avoid the burbs with every fiber of my being (grew up there, hope never to return).
Source please. My experience, with my friends and coworkers, is that nobody leaves downtown to shop if they can avoid it. It is quite possible that False Consensus effect is coming in to play here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False-consensus_effect
I don't mean to be rude, I just think you (and perhaps me too!) may have some inaccurate assumptions about how people behave. You shop in the burbs. I avoid the burbs with every fiber of my being (grew up there, hope never to return).