The shops along the streets in the Middle Eastern nations all have many similar features. On one street or sidewalk you will have plenty of stores and shops that have absolutely no shared theme whatsoever. You will have a store that sells spices and right next to it you will have a store or a shop that sells clothes or something. In fact, these places sometimes it gets to be like how did these two stores get together in the same area; but it happens.
Many times you will see apartment buildings that sore into the sky with shops on the ground floor. Many of these stores have like the necessary materials that an individual home may require. The understatement of "they are a small shack" and so on does not tend to get to anyone only because the concept of these stores is fantastic. Instead of driving yourself to a supermarket somewhere and getting stuck in traffic for an unnecessary period of time, all you have to do is walk downstairs out of your apartment building and walk not even two or three steps and you will be at a store that has plenty of materials.
Of course these qualities of the stores that I am defining is only found in the middle class areas and the older areas of the cities. For example you won't necessarily find these shops in the newer developments in Abdoun in Amman but you will certainly find them in the older areas downtown.
Then you begin to wonder if these stores are listed and if the people pay taxes and if they are really among the system in the nation's economy. Plenty of people tend to take a small room or storage place and rent it and just start selling things there. I'm not so sure, however, that these places actually are among the listed shops.
Actually, I'm not even sure that these stores exist in places like Dubai or Doha because these shops portray extreme "Arab" qualities of like the older, pre-modern era of the city and Dubai and so on are like the exact opposite of these cities. Since I have never been to those new "world class" cities I really can't say if they (referring to the shops) are there or not.
I personally think that a true Middle Eastern city has these shops around
Many times you will see apartment buildings that sore into the sky with shops on the ground floor. Many of these stores have like the necessary materials that an individual home may require. The understatement of "they are a small shack" and so on does not tend to get to anyone only because the concept of these stores is fantastic. Instead of driving yourself to a supermarket somewhere and getting stuck in traffic for an unnecessary period of time, all you have to do is walk downstairs out of your apartment building and walk not even two or three steps and you will be at a store that has plenty of materials.
Of course these qualities of the stores that I am defining is only found in the middle class areas and the older areas of the cities. For example you won't necessarily find these shops in the newer developments in Abdoun in Amman but you will certainly find them in the older areas downtown.
Then you begin to wonder if these stores are listed and if the people pay taxes and if they are really among the system in the nation's economy. Plenty of people tend to take a small room or storage place and rent it and just start selling things there. I'm not so sure, however, that these places actually are among the listed shops.
Actually, I'm not even sure that these stores exist in places like Dubai or Doha because these shops portray extreme "Arab" qualities of like the older, pre-modern era of the city and Dubai and so on are like the exact opposite of these cities. Since I have never been to those new "world class" cities I really can't say if they (referring to the shops) are there or not.
I personally think that a true Middle Eastern city has these shops around
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