Entry 16: harrington grows!

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Entry posted by 89James89 · April 29, 2019

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hammysonata: Thanks, glad you like the MMP work and yes it is very contagious lol. So much so that I'm pretty much mmping everything now as I go along and whilst I wait for things to develop. At least things will look nice (hopefully) even if they do take several between entries!

As for looking like upstate NY that's pretty heartening to hear seeing as I was going for a Canada/Northern American look to the region.

Entry 16: Harrington grows!

So, today were going to take a look at some of the growth that's been going on in and around Harrington you see, as the town and its surrounds have grown the pressure on the farmland around the town has become more and more, This coupled with the reduction in yields due to some reason or another (I think it had something to do with soil degradation but honestly, it was pretty boring while they were explaining it to me and I wasn't actuality listening all that much) which, rather luckily is shown on this photo below, means that the farm shown wasn't long for this world.

This however, it would seem wasn't all that bad a thing. As it turns out, a particular farmer, by the name of Frank had some smarts about him and realised that he could sell the land for a pretty penny. Fast forward a couple of years and the lovely yellow fields you saw above now look like this!

As you ca see its been turned into housing mainly which, surprisingly enough developed by Franks new business venture in construction (Frank Ventures) and meant that he really now wasn't short of money proved rather well by him converting his old farmhouse into a large and modern (at least by Harrignton standards) home.

Driven by the whole money thing and how lucrative this seemed to be, Frank then bought up four times as much land as he used to own on one of the ever expanding farming areas outside Harrington and then purchased a redeveloped his neighbours plot in Harrignton.

Interestingly enough though, the local school had contacted him during the planning stage and requested that he leave the greenhouse intact as a sort of educational facility. It turns out however that they may have just ran out of room at the actual school house as there appears to be whole classrooms of kids in there all day with there desks and textbooks. However, with Franks daughter being one of the students he didn't really care all that much.

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This was however about as far as the growth got around the actual town of Harrington. On the otherside where we have Kinsen however we saw a bit of an explosion with growth, unsurprisingly, due to the amount of land that there was around the town (though you could argue, with the dumps becoming a bit full (trash left in parked bin lorries overnight, full). And therefore the growth is a bit surprising). Surprising or not however the growth is happening and no one can stop it!

Also in the above photo, as some of the more astute of you may have noticed there's some development across the river where there was only trees before. This is Diplin. An odd place and founded on the third chunk of land that sits in the same bay as Harington and Kinsen, this was originally population spill over and, much lik Kinsen, is technically a suburb of Harrington rather than its own town.

As you may also have noticed though, for a population spill over there's a lot of industrial warehouses and factories in Diplin. You see, with the Eastbank project having failed and having basically become a population hub rather than the port it was meant to be, this has left a lot of investors looking elsewhere to invest. Diplin, it turned out, was a excellent elsewhere as land prices were pretty cheap. However, this does now mean that living here is getting to be as fun as living in Kinsen

And this is where we'll leave this entry, with the above image looking at the Harrignton area all filled up and the usual regional view update, showing a bit more growth throughout the area. (OOC: Ignore the black tiles, they were there so I could reconcile edges and not ruin my terraforming)

Till next time!