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#they don't have paved roads or cars in canon honey
ryanthedemiboy · 1 year
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How to tell a writer has never been to a village in their life: they think you can get a cab (easily at that!)
#also it's 192X in what can only generously be called a village#they don't have paved roads or cars in canon honey#they don't have cabs#also they don't have addresses idk why you brought that up#also also there's no way in hell they have a hotel#an inn *maybe*#more likely a B&B or rooms above the one restaurant on main street#(so called bc it's where everything is)#also outside of main street it's all farms of some kind#''on the outskirts of town'' isn't really a thing#idk i grew up in the suburbs but every weekend we'd visit my grandparents in the country#and my parents grew up in the country#well. on the outskirts of the village (not too far off main street but also far enough away that most streets weren't paved for#quite a while)#when my dad was in high school he moved out to the boonies (beyond the outskirts#into what is in the village's postcode but is unincorporated)#and i spent many weeks a year out there during summers and breaks#i'm by no means a country kid#but fuck you can't get a cab in a place that fucking small#if you scheduled it ahead and were prepared to pay a pretty penny you might be able to#the village my parents were raised in has cabs but the village is several times bigger than the place in this story#by the time my parents were schoolage they had an elementary school#but they didn't when their parents were growing up — one-room schoolhouse that's also a church anybody?#even now the village has to combine with a... well. it's too small to be a village. but the neighboring area at any rate. to make a#middle/high school#everyone doesn't know everyone bc it's too big for that (mostly)#at least now one of them is on some maps xD
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