The strip mall nearby has become blighted, with closed shops and businesses.
The grocery market is still there, and I was in the area and needed something. The first sight that greeted me was two women in hi-jabs arguing with a store clerk at the service desk about a refund they wanted but had been refused.
It went downhill from there. Imagine a stew of 3rd world dystopia, illegals from our "friends" south of the border, and thuggery. Children were running at full sprint down the aisles.
After finding what I needed, I purchased it and quickly left.
I remember walking into a grocery market once when I was in Ireland. I held that mental image to the one my mind had just been subjected to.
Ireland and Europe have plenty of problems; we’re simply in a position now where we have the same ones. We used to mock them for their high taxes and high unemployment and low birthrate and expensive gasoline and foreign invaders, and now we have become them. Ireland is not in good shape, but you’d have a hard time convincing northern Europeans that they don’t have a MUCH better life than we do.
I live in an area full of foreigners, and have yet to meet a German, Dane, or Austrian who moved here.