yes, Sian, there's more than an element of truth in your last paragraph!!!

Here in rural Australia, it's often the teens who are desperate for places like Shopping Centre developments, just to be able to "hang out" (I'm trying to recall where I used to go to do that - then I remembered that I wasn't ALLOWED to go out very often!!!!!!!!!!)

Also, people are moving Northwards to sunny Queensland, from the mega-cities of Sydney and Melbourne, where real estate prices are absolutely horrendous - this is in turn pushing our prices to ridiculous levels, unaffordable now for a large percentage of the Australian population. The gap between "rich" and "poor" is ever-widening. (probably the same in the UK and Nth America, I would think ...)

Cheers! R-J