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WCDT 28-32 March 2011 (1891-1895)
Carl-E:
What, no "Scurvy"?
And I think jwhouk got it the first time - the easy familiarity they all have comes from extreme physical closeness to each other. The ability to run into each other on the street, or just drop by anannounced - it all goes out the window if you have to get into a car or bus to get over to the other person's place. Sure, she'll be at CoD every day for work, and probably still run errands and shop in the neighborhood before/after/during work, but then at some point she'll have to pack it in and go home. No more Hanners popping in for a martini and crashing on the couch, no bumping into Penny at the pizza place late at night, or spotting Steve and Ellen Cosette arguing on a streetcorner in the wee hours as she weaves her way home from an evening of drinking at the horrible revelation. For people who are neighborhood people, this is a major lifestyle change!
I've lived in college towns, small cities and major cities with dense local neighborhoods before, and you really do get used to everything (and everyone) being right there. All my moves were big pull-up-stakes-and-relocate moves of hundreds of miles, so I've never known the grief of "20 minutes away from your stomping grounds", but I know from others that it's real.
Silly, but real.
iduguphergrave:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 29 Mar 2011, 07:17 ---I've lived in college towns, small cities and major cities with dense local neighborhoods before, and you really do get used to everything (and everyone) being right there. All my moves were big pull-up-stakes-and-relocate moves of hundreds of miles, so I've never known the grief of "20 minutes away from your stomping grounds", but I know from others that it's real.
Silly, but real.
--- End quote ---
I wouldn't say it's silly to form close ties to the people in your neighborhood. That's what small towns (even "big" small towns like NoHo) are supposed to be about - eventually everyone becomes like extended family. Also, Penelope's betraying herself just a little bit by expressing fondness for Dora in not wanting her to movie so "far away." Kind of sweet, really.
I would say this is a sign Jeph's planning to put Dora on a bus, but I really don't see that happening since she owns the friggin shop. I think she's here to stay (watch, tomorrow she won't just get put on a bus, she'll get hit by a bus).
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: iduguphergrave on 29 Mar 2011, 07:34 ---I think she's here to stay (watch, tomorrow she won't just get put on a bus, she'll get hit by a bus).
--- End quote ---
But you've just cancelled the bus attack by saying it. But she also can't stay, but she can't go, but she can't stay... Nurr, nurr, nurr <head explodes>
pwhodges:
There's also the option for her to make new friends whom we also get to see - but Jeph could well decide that's too much dilution of the focus of the comic.
Arrowed:
The problem with the whole "20 minutes?!?!" thing is ya'll don't understand how incredibly infuriating a drive on Route 9 is. People are either dumb as hell, slow as hell, or both. There's always a traffic jam. And enough people detour to Bay Road that even that gets slow at times. People (non-college people) in Northampton don't go to Amherst regularly, and vice versa - mainly because there's enough in both towns to keep everyone happy in their own town. And anything you can't get in your own town you can get at the malls in Hadley. I could see how they'd be worried that Dora would find more local friends in her new town.
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