I'm not sure this phrase is used in English but "a doughnut phenomenon" in Japanese depicts the social status in which people leave the center of the city sparsely populated. Kushiro City is really in the doughnut phenomenon. There used to be several department stores and supermarkets in the center of this city and most of them had been moved or bankrupted in the last decade. As I'm living just at the center of the doughnut without having a car, it is sometimes inconvenient for shopping foods or daily necessities. Most of the abandoned large stores are left without replacement which is adding a kind of ruined taste to this city. This is the picture which I took when I visited the rim part of the doughnut. There was a huge shopping mall in the suburb which reminded me of the mall in Richmond. It's quite natural that people move to the reasonable area, but they can't come back to the center of the city if abandoned buildings are left there. The doughnut of this city seems to be getting bigger gradually. It is a bad situation because people have to move around by car every day wasting expensive gas.
This is rather an interesting phenomenon but I still quite can't figure out why people would prefer to live in suburbs instead. Can you give a little more detail on that?
Also, since this comment is rather untimely already, can I ask as well if this phenomenon is still observed up until now?
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