it’s even better when you remember that “edge of town” translates to “smack dab in the centre of the city” these days, you could live well into the countryside and still be closer to the centre than many people who live in the urban area now.
it’s so fucking depressing to think about how much countryside has just been absorbed into endless sprawl that isn’t even good, everything went to shit in the 60’s when we stopped building densely
“They lived in a shack at the edge of town”
They had their own place? Sweet!
it’s even better when you remember that “edge of town” translates to “smack dab in the centre of the city” these days, you could live well into the countryside and still be closer to the centre than many people who live in the urban area now.
it’s so fucking depressing to think about how much countryside has just been absorbed into endless sprawl that isn’t even good, everything went to shit in the 60’s when we stopped building densely