How lovely. I imagine anywhere between 5.000 and 30.000 inhabitants is a very pleasantly sized town to live in.
My neighbourhood within the capital has had 11.500 in 2011 by the last census, it might have closer to 15.000 nowadays...the new census is due 2021, perhaps the Govt will postpone it for Covid reasons, or try an online one, sceptical...
For the bad bakery, I feel it was pribably all right to have closed. The owners might try again with elevated quality, I'd like to think.
Bakery chains, yes, those have developed here as well, they are actually pretty good, depending on what you get...but mostly yes. Are you happy with the chain shop?
Co-op is a supermarket? Or am I mistaken...or do you refer to the chain as Co-op?
Oh how wonderful, sounds so well organized too!
I would very much love to have a "refill"shop around me. My knowledge of it has only been through youtube videos/reportages. The lady sounds so nice! Beer knowledge is amazing! Delicate process, I imagine.
My Goodness, is it not odd to have a postal office closed? It is vital! And turned into a coffee shop, they might even market it as 'once a post office"....
The shop owner who agreed to have the postal service should be awarded Citizen of the decade!
Every neighbourhood in my city has a local postal office, luckily, as the main post office is 70 min away( by public transport, i.e.tram there and back plus waiting in the line)...many pensioners pay their bills through the post here...so that helps them...
That is so sweet that you awarded the paper girl!
I am affraid my newspaper reading habits have all gone digital. As my commute takes 4 hours daily (2 in each direction), the time window to browse news is at the train, if I am seated...but I love the rustle of the paper, and those reading wooden frames that were to be found in some cafes...at some point, I think I will go back to paper...
