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Communal living – sharing some of your private space with others is not new as this article from 2009 illustrates https://www.theguardian.com/money/2009/oct/24/communal-living-neighbourhood.
​Actually,  household sizes continuously reducing in the Western world is a relatively recent development. In Asia extended families often live under one roof and so do people in other parts of the world.

Therefore it is no surprise that even in Europe and North America communal living is a topic of conversation.
 
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Quoting one of our favourite magazines https://monocle.com/minute/2020/02/01/punchy-and-profound/#6
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“And while experiential is getting talked up, the shops we see making money are like a good magazine: passionate about what they do, good at telling stories, carefully edited, both innovative and reliable, and confident of their brand values.”
Online shopping is not going to go away, but brick-and-mortar still has a future. If you do it well of course…
 
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