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The average household size was a lot larger then, and so we had more people in the same number of dwelling units. There were, therefore, more people to patronize the stores.

To get back to the historical population, we need to allow some proportion of the larger single-family units to split up into smaller units. Where once a house held a family of 5, maybe today we should let a family of 3 and an unrelated couple share the home, for example.

Also, back then people didn't shop on the Internet and there weren't as many or as large regional shopping destinations drawing dollars away from the neighborhood main street.

by David Alpert on Jan 29, 2009 5:27 pm • link • report

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