Life in a Northern Town (but is there? )

T'was the Smoking Ban that killed off trade, methinks - All those people who complained, saying that if Smoking was removed, they would go to their local Pub, - Didn't
Coupled with the Double whammy of accessible IT , Sky TV etc, and Cheaper prices in the Off-licences/Shops, 'Nein Host' was always going to suffer.
- Still,
With Live events at venues, hopefully the wheel will turn - .... Cheers !

 

If I visit, I will need advice.x

 

When you visit more like .

I'm sure me and Woflie would welcome you to Manchester and arrange something of a meet up .

 

Smoking ban here in NJ killed a lot of the businesses. Less people are eating out more since they don't want the inconvenience of having to go outside to smoke.

 

i wish more apartments would ban smoking (of tobacco) and welcome cats (at no extra charge instead, and likewise they'd be welcome on the bus)
"northern town" sounds like the opening to how to train your dragon.

well to each their own.
what my present town lacks are model train stores and affordable computer stores.
casinos its got tons of, which along with the kind of booze joints in the u.s., does nothing for me.
(casinos do have multiple resteraunts and some of them buffettes, most of them with exceptionally good food)

it has a mall, which is of course mostly women's clothing stores, though it does have a food court, a stars-n-bux, and a couple of rp gamer stores.
though the role play stuff that interests me is only at conventions, and even that began and continues with mostly a very different focus then mine.

 

i would love to be able to hear the voices of small furry creatures without them being drown out by loud human ones.
hell i'd even rather listen to cars and trucks then the sound of human voices.
(and the sounds of trains and airplanes much better then those of cars and trucks)

"life" has different meanings to different people i guess. to me it is exploring the curiosities of the unexpected, the convolutions of nature,
and especially the aesthetic of the intersection of infrastructure and environment when it is done right.

i guess i'm too used to creating my own "life" in my imagination, to understand disappointment in lack of drama.

yes i'm interested in things i don't see much of, just these for me seem to be a bit different then even people on here seem to expect.

and i WANT to live, where stray cats and kittens are more welcome then tobacco.
i would love to live where tobacco smokers had to pay an extra fee,
but people who shared their units with cats
(or ferrets or foxes or other small and not too difficult creatures) did not.

of course where anyone could go out and build their own kind of shelter and live in it would be better still. far enough away from each other to walk between without disturbing either side.

i don't know what the status of building codes is in that northern town, but most places in the u.s. any more there just aren't places where people are allowed to.

i would say, "life in a damd city, but is there?"

 

Wonderful pictures. I live in a smaller town with a population of about 1200 (used to be 2500). There's only three small bars (used to have 9) and one full-time restaurant (used to have 5). This pandemic has taken a huge toll on many other businesses as well. Smoking ban had no effect on anything here. We're an hour drive from any bigger towns, and two hours from a city. Everyone has been moving to find work. I graduated high school here in 1987 with 87 in my class. This year's senior class graduated with 16. Has went from a huge tourist attraction, to mostly a retirement town with few larger families remaining. Nearest Walmart, Menards, or a simple fast food like McDonald's is an hour away also. I can only hope for a miracle that this town, and all others around the world will slowly rebound to pre-pandemic numbers. We still have about 25% restrictions in place. But if you're fully vaccinated like me, you're no longer required to wear a mask. Everyone else has to indoors, but not outside. Slowly but surely.

 

i would love to live in a town of less then a thousand humans, surrounded by forest,
with a train each way every hour or so, to the nearest city for shopping, half hour or so ride to get there.
prity much what it takes to do my shopping now, on a bus, and without woodland scenery.

 

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Ok I can visit in October. Who wants to meet up?

 

Me for sure

 

yAY MAYBE WOLFY?

 

I would luv to meet Wolfy as well .

 

Hope he sees this. X

 

i do not understand the "life" referred to in this thread, the "life" in the smell of stale booze and tobacco smoke.
the life i know anything about, is curled up behind a tree, somewhere out in the forest.
far from any place humans can be heard telling each other what to pretend.

there are humans living in towns, and yes i would agree to not call that life.
nor in cities, nor pretty much in places where humans go to expect to be entertained,
or even 'get layed'.

life is where imagination is encouraged. constructive and considerate imagination.
figuring out how to con each other is not how i would abuse that word either.

of course life, even in its broadest physical, or even psychological, meaning, is only a tiny fragment of existence.

and if we forbid each other to be logical and analytical, what then the meaning of words?

 

we have freedom day on Monday????

 

I cant wait .
To others it will be dread day

 

We now have a new strain of the virus.

 

when i lived in small town northern california, the county ran small buses to all the other little towns.
but where i am in reno, which calls itself the biggest little city, and has tons of casinos, if that's your thing,
but almost nothing like little busses to neighboring smaller towns. there's one to carson that only runs commute hours.
one to susanville, i have no idea when it runs, one three times a day out to the rez around pyramid.
but nothing like what we had around placer and nevada counties in california.

life is in the eye of the beholder. non-reserve set public transportation linking smaller communities is what i would call life that we don't have in reno.
i know a lot of you live in britain and parts of europe and probably enjoy a higher level of public transit then most of what the u.s. has seen since the mid 1950s.
lack of public trasportation is a form of poverty that goes unseen by those who can afford and consider a normal part of everyday life to indenture themselves to a car.

and cars these days, even falling apart ones, are costing like houses to where on the banks can afford to buy them outright,
and almost everyone else has to indenture themselves to the bank to have one.
and of courser for reasons already mentioned, without one we're stuck having to live in cities.

if not being able to walk where there's anything else to see besides dusty buildings and pavement it is someone's idea of life,
because there's booze and smoke there, they're welcome to keep it.