Firefly Geographic Parallels?

POSTED BY: Ragua
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 23:31
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NCBROWNCOAT

Friday, February 24, 2006 8:26 PM

I live in a small town (10,000 pop) in eastern NC on a river about 25 miles upstream from the Intercoastal Waterway(Pamlico River to be exact-just to the west of the Outer Banks). Once a thriving farm market town in a farming area. My family ran one of the local department stores for 2 generations until the late 1970's.

It was definately Outer Rim, but the local manufacturing has left and the farms are being subdivided. It's now got high priced waterfront houses that doctors and others from the East Carolina medical school 30 miles away are buying and even Core types from Raleigh and points farther north are coming here also. The infrastructure hasn't quite caught up to their expectations.

GRIZWALD

Friday, February 24, 2006 8:37 PM

I think I live in Paradiso! Zip code 52160.

Town of 450 (when the snowbirds are all home), on the railroad tracks, lots of farms and ranches all around. The terraforming took especially well around here, though; no desert. Lots of greenery and marshland.

ELEKA

Friday, February 24, 2006 9:08 PM

It is a completly different reality. I know people who don't let their kids, kids my agfe who are in high school attend PG-13 and R rated movies because they feel it will expose them to a "corrupt and tainted world."

WTF!?! It is really sad. One of the oldest went off to clooege last year and fell straight into rehab for drug problems, I talked to him and he was like, "I had no idea. Life was all sugary sweet and rainbows back home." It's like freakin' Alliance Pax-ing without all the cannibalistic 10% of the population thing.

I do have to add that once you get about 15 min. from where I live, you hit like Persephone-esque areas. Alot more laid back, a big mix of Core folk and the rest of us living "together" as best they can.
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Jayne! Try not to steal too much of their shit.

DAVEC5

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 8:27 PM

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Where does your city or town rank in the 'Verse?

i WISH where i live smelled as nice as Canton.... just kidding, i'm on the raggedy edge myself. My little piece of Texas is full of gun-toting, knife weilding, war-mongering, back-stabbing, face-shooting galloots who would just as soon shoot you as vote for a democrat.....and that's just when Dick Cheney is down here quail hunting.....
yes, Redneck City....population 28....although boothill is pretty full.
Actually, i've always gotten the impression that many of the outer rim planets look an awfully lot like just a little east of El Cajon, CA...

Adios, muchachos...The Lone Liberal

....and we all shine on....

DOG13000

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 8:42 PM

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Addendum: I used to live in Chicago, and I would equate it with Persephone.

I still live in Chicago and you have it on the nose. I think I even know where Badger's office would be. (The BNSF freight yards if you're curious; shipping containers as far as the eye can see.)

I moved to the North Shore (Wilmette - go to New Trier just like Jayne!) a couple years back... definitly Osiris Here.

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CYBERSNARK

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 9:38 PM

Inner rim round here.

We play like we're civilized; whole area's built up, parking lots everywhere, connected to several major highways, civic projects all pretty and new. It's only when you look closer you see our lack of music stores, our one half-assed comic shop, our one mall, one movie theatre, the newspaper that seems to be published by C-level journalism undergrads, and the fact that 90% of the jobs in town come from the paper mill that's about to close.

In about 5 years, this place'll look like it's run by hill-folk (there's talk of putting up a post at the end of Pitt St). We've already got the "church on every corner" mentality.

Now that I think about it, the soon-to-be-closed mill would make a half-decent place to stand in for some of the more industrial worlds. . .

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Originally posted by Eleka:
WTF!?! It is really sad. One of the oldest went off to clooege last year and fell straight into rehab for drug problems, I talked to him and he was like, "I had no idea. Life was all sugary sweet and rainbows back home." It's like freakin' Alliance Pax-ing without all the cannibalistic 10% of the population thing.

What did Joss say about the need for scary fairy tales (and what happens to kids who are raised to think it's all sweetness and light)?

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KIZYR

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 9:56 PM

Oh this is a fun thread!

Ok, I currently live on Londinium; straight-up center of the 'Verse. Though, I was born and raised in a city on Beaumonde; I just moved to Londinium for university and stayed around afterwards. My folks, though, primarily hail from Haven.

On Earth-that-Is, that'd be Washington DC, Nashville, and Dhaka in that order. KF

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Look in my eyes, Lord, and my sins will play out on them as on a screen. Read them all.
Forgive what you can and send me on my path. I will walk on until you bid me rest.
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DONCOAT

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:31 PM

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In about 5 years, this place'll look like it's run by hill-folk (there's talk of putting up a post at the end of Pitt St).

Post holer. Makes holes for posts.

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