A launderette is a frequent element in the streetscape in Europe. In many residential areas you find one on every street. As a friend told me: "Next to the washing machines people that never otherwise would have met start talking. Clothes, and the procedure of washing them, is the lowest common denominator". True or not, the launderettes are friendly. Next to my place in Brussels there are plenty of them. In the entire Sweden there is one! Or so I have heard, I have actually not seen it yet. I presume this says something about spontaneous meetings in Scandinavia.
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