Not every high street is dead, just some are more dead than others.

Winchester has very expensive car parking fees. Over £20 for about 3 hours.

Bournemouth is dead because there has been no investment in the town, cycle lanes that can fit a pick up truck and aggresive beggers coming up to every few minutes asking for money or in some cases drugs.

I agree what one reader says about Bosvegas, Richer Sounds is an excellent electrical shop and if they know you you get a nice little discounts.

Also most of the nice hotels in and around Bournemouth are only used for the migrants, the ones that are open for the public are shitholes.

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24856917....J3va4muYxOP0MEJ3aEng

High Streets, bar the richer inner city suburbs, in Oz are as dead as the UK.

Replaced by ginormus Westfields every where you turn.

So annoying. Parking in some godawful parking station and then walking for ages just to visit a chemist.

£20 for parking 3 hours and you might browse the shops and not even spent £20 on what you pick up.

It's mad Rich, Winchester does not have many shops, it only seems to get busy during the Christmas period.

What's shopping like where you are Rich?

Green Man wrote:
What's shopping like where you are Rich?

Shopping is solely for those who are totally bored, out of their skulls.

Green Man wrote:
What's shopping like where you are Rich?

I agree with Sally nowadays on that.

The nearest to me GM is the Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre, now a listed building despite only being built in the late 70's. I last visited it 5 years ago next month, in February 2020 just before the pandemic struck. I have never been back again. I used to drop in a couple of times a week. Maybe I'm just bored with the place, it has what you'd expect. I'd been going there regular since it opened back in 1979. I was a local school child who was a lucky pick to go and meet the Queen when she opened the place that summer and snapped a photo right in her face as she greeted me! She opened the actual building to the public but Mrs Thatcher came along three months later and officially opened all the shops within it just after she became PM. I have absolutely no memory of her doing that but there is a plaque to say so. Quite a big deal to get a Monarch and serving PM to open a shopping area.

It's where the UK first multiplex cinema opened back in late 1985 just next to it, The Point. Now derelict less than 40 years later yet had some big film premieres in the late 80's. It's now just an iconic shell.

Get this too, in 1988 Princess Anne opened another building beside these two which housed a big Sainsbury's and Waitrose for years. They moved out and nobody moved in and a building only opened in May 1988 was recently demolished to make way for something new. Even big buildings are now instantly disposable it seems after barely 30 years.

One thing I will say is that the area seems very very expensive to the point of being a rip off, perhaps because we are in that sweet spot halfway between London & Birmingham north to south and Oxford and Cambridge east to west. Fabulous place for cyclists though who have hundreds of miles of routes to themselves, none of this painted line down the side of an existing busy main road kind of stuff like in London.