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Re: THE MYSTERIOUS JELLYFISH DOMINATION ♡
Posted: Oct 27th, '18, 22:51
by jacobgrey
Uhh, nope. There's maybe about 40-50 apartments in our building. It's not exactly huge, only 4 stories. It's pretty common in small towns and suburb areas. It's just affordable housing, is all. Most people around us are young families, first-time home owners, and retirees. The only way you can get a standalone house is to either be extremely well-off or to go way outside the town centre.
It's not exactly an Elizabethan hamlet with cottages set into acres of farmland we're living in, most of it beyond the tiny historic high street area was developed in the last few decades, so the structures are modern 
Re: THE MYSTERIOUS JELLYFISH DOMINATION ♡
Posted: Oct 28th, '18, 01:20
by Akili Li
... I think my sense of scale is very different than yours.... that seems like something you'd see in one of the bigger cities here that have a college or university. You must be living someplace that has over 10k people in it.
Re: THE MYSTERIOUS JELLYFISH DOMINATION ♡
Posted: Oct 28th, '18, 01:38
by Lady River
sounds kinda like the uni town near me.
except they don't have 4 story buildings.... but if they could I could see them doing it
Re: THE MYSTERIOUS JELLYFISH DOMINATION ♡
Posted: Oct 28th, '18, 01:52
by Akili Li
University cities are nice; they always have so many more services! I like to go visit them.
Re: THE MYSTERIOUS JELLYFISH DOMINATION ♡
Posted: Oct 28th, '18, 01:58
by Lady River
I still consider it a town even though wikia says it's a city. It has 24,351 people. approx.
Re: THE MYSTERIOUS JELLYFISH DOMINATION ♡
Posted: Oct 28th, '18, 15:47
by jacobgrey
If it has less than 10k people I would probably liken that more to a large village. Down to the hundreds for a mid-to-small village. And less than that I would consider a hamlet.
Although, I don't really know how many people there are in our town. I looked it up online but the latest figures are from 2015 which is before our home was built so a bit irrelevant. Also for some reason the council combines our town with some of the villages around us when considering the numbers, which doesn't make much sense to me.
But the town centre, where we live, is probably around 10k people or maybe a little less. Then the rest of the people live in a more sprawling range of locations.
Re: THE MYSTERIOUS JELLYFISH DOMINATION ♡
Posted: Oct 28th, '18, 19:49
by Akili Li
Ah, okay. So really you have a very efficient land use, with almost everyone in a smaller area of the town center and that leaves more land around it for things like farming or parks?
Re: THE MYSTERIOUS JELLYFISH DOMINATION ♡
Posted: Oct 28th, '18, 19:59
by jacobgrey
Right, there's a lot of parkland especially. We have a big private school here which has a large amount of land as well, mostly set aside as playing fields for the students, but it stretches right through the middle of the town. Then football fields for students of other schools in the district, and a local non-professional team, and so on.
It takes me about 15 or 20 minutes to walk from the very far end of the high street down to the other. And there's not much off to either side except for residences, the school, and parkland etc.
Oh! and we also have a ruined castle. So the grounds there are preserved, or at least preserved to their current state of ruins, so there's no buildings on that area. It was built in about 1260 but then in around the 1500s people stopped living there. I guess then after that sometime we all came back XD
Our county is famous for ruined/non-ruined castles and also for a special kind of house that people used to live in when this was predominantly a farming area. Not so popular anymore. Some of them were torn down recently to make way for a new motorway, which I was just appalled by. It's also referred to as "the Garden of England" in reference to the fact we have a lot of green spaces left.
Re: THE MYSTERIOUS JELLYFISH DOMINATION ♡
Posted: Oct 28th, '18, 20:06
by Akili Li
Wow, that is really good thinking on someone's part, to preserve so much for parks!
Sad about the buildings torn down, though. Why not relocate them to a building museum? You know, artificial villages that are on land set aside for the purpose, and the buildings were all historical buildings donated and moved there?
Re: THE MYSTERIOUS JELLYFISH DOMINATION ♡
Posted: Oct 28th, '18, 20:16
by jacobgrey
I think they just said well, there are so many of them in this area, no one will miss a few. But to me it sounds like the kind of dangerous thinking where you end up with none left because everyone takes that approach.
Also the fact that there were so many was one of the major appeals. You can't see them in other places, so it feels kind of magical to see them all together.