[UA] America by Prime Time (was Greetings)

[Kevin Mowery]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Timothy Toner" <thanatos at interaccess.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: [UA] America by Prime Time (was Greetings)

> The driving distance between the farthest northwest branch of the Chicago
> Public Library and the farthest southeast branch is 1 hour, 19 minutes,
> non-rush hour.  Pick any point in any city in Australia, and start driving
> in a given direction.  Will you find yourself in a densely populated
> neighborhood (not suburb, mind you--neighborhood) of that city one hour
and
> nineteen minutes later, barring traffic problems?  I didn't appreciate how
> frickin' big this city was until I started looking for a new job, and
> realized that if I stayed living where I was, I'd be looking at an hour
> drive one way, without ever leaving the city limits.  That's screwed up.

    Columbus, OH is no slouch of a city as medium-sized cities go.  We've
got more than a million people.  Then I dated a woman in Chicago.  She lived
in Hyde Park.  I wanted to visit Games Plus up in whatever the hell suburb
it's in up there.  The first problem for me was learning that that part of
town was in a different area code.  Then it was clearing half a frickin' day
to drive up there and back.  By the time I'd drive up there (an hour trip if
I was lucky and we didn't get lost--I was unfamiliar with the city and she
travelled almost exclusively by public transportation), spent time perusing
the store, maybe eating, and then driving back . . . we're talking about a
minimum three-hour trip to visit someplace in the same city.

    Still, it's a great city.  I'd set all my games there except too many
people know more about it than I do.

Kevin Mowery________ kemowery at earthlink.net
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