▲ | Yossarrian22 16 hours ago | |
The problem is those towns weren’t crap within living memory when the books were written. Now anyone who remembers otherwise is close to dead | ||
▲ | jhbadger 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Some of them maybe have gentrified (not to ignore that this in itself isn't 100% a good thing). Others are if anything worse than when he wrote the book. | ||
▲ | notahacker 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Nah, several of them were always running jokes, some of them were a lot worse a decade or three earlier, and some of them were picked far more for their snobbishness or for being homogenous sanitised suburbia than their decline. |