Laeserin on Nostr: We always move to quiet places, as did our parents, and everywhere we moved got much ...

We always move to quiet places, as did our parents, and everywhere we moved got much bigger very fast. Probably because we couldn't move out to someplace 5 hours helicopter flight out from the next town, as we needed to be within 2 hours commute to work.

Can see the same thing out here, on the Eastern Shore. Used to be nothing but fields and forests and the occasional farm or village, but now it's like

house
house
house
strip mall
house
house
industrial center
house
house
prison
house
house
shopping center
house
house
... the whole way. Three hours of nonstop development.

Everyone left the city and the city came with them. Now, it's the city looking empty.