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Still Colburn...
Thin White Duke posted a City Journal entry in Maricopa - The multi city region of multiple cities. (SC4)
Yep. That's right. Colburn. Still good ol' Colburn. That's good, though, right? We're starting to get to know the city better. Or at least parts of it. We're still not in the epicenter of this megalopolis, but we're making cracking progress to get there. Look! It's the eastern shore of Raffles Quay, right south of downtown Colburn! My god, are we getting there? Anyway, in this picture we can see the Colburn Hyatt hotel, next to the bridge. It's a pretty popular four star hotel among middle class tourists. No wonder, considering it's location slap dash in the middle of it all. Tourism is booming in Colburn right now. In the lower left is the theater district. While not too big or impressive, There are some good shows there, and it is praised, if not else by the locals, for being cozy and picturesque. Finally the tower in the bottom right is the Grump Raffles Highmark tower. Standing as Colburn's tallest building south of Raffles Quay, and the fifth tallest residential building in the world, no wonder where it got it's name from. Also, it was erected by none other than world famous city development big wig Ronald Grump. Colburn should be proud. If you go a few feet north, you reach Raffles City. Has anyone else noticed how everything located by Raffles Quay is called something that includes "Raffles"? I have. I guess it's not that strange. Still, sounds funny. Like Scooby-Doo trying to say "Waffles". Heh! Anyway; Raffles city is not particularily big. There are some mid-rises housing companies like Philips and Honda, but nothing particularily impressive. Unless you like ferris wheels. Because there is a ferris wheel. So if you like ferris wheels, welcome. If not, you're still welcome, but if it gets boring you better not whine about it. Finally, the residential areas. People who go to places like the above ones are either sad housewives who can't pronounce "tortilla", or people who actually have the money to go there. Let's focus on the latter. The latter, being the rich people in case you somehow for got and is slightly brain damaged, live in places like these: Fancy, I know, but it comes with a price. These are million dollar mansions, you know. In case this area (which by the way is called "Sheffield") is a bit too expensive for you, fear not. You could always try Concorde! People living in this area are equally fancy as those living in Sheffield, but they're mostly younger, so they seem even more stuck up and annoying. Seriously. They're twenty five years old, and use words like "adequate" instead of "okay". -.- If somehow I haven't lost my sales pitch completely and you still want to live here, the apartments are spacious and bright, the commute times to downton Colburn are not too bad and it only costs about $700,000 a year. Dirt cheap. Just grab your bags and walk right in. Micro transactions not accepted. -
Colburn: The suburbia
Thin White Duke posted a City Journal entry in Maricopa - The multi city region of multiple cities. (SC4)
Aaah... Colburn. So green. So hilly. So mediocre. So perfectly middle class. This might just be the most exceptionally ordinary city in the world. Maybe even the entire universe. Or multiverse. There really is nothing special about the city itself. It's surroundings steals the show. As long as you stay in the suburbs, that is. So I guess it's too bad, but staying in the suburbs is just what we're going to do. I, Johan Karlsson, mayor of Colburn city proudly present suburbia! Feel free to look away. To start off, here's a typical residential neighborhood. This is where the boring people who's only goal with life is to live until they die are lurking around. It's actually kind of sad. Good thing the neighborhood itself is nice. Here's another one of those neighborhoods that's filled with young teenagers who swear never to live in a neighborhood like this one again. The kind of people who end up living in areas like these after they get sick of the big city life, you know? "Oh, what's this? It's a shop lined street! Surely this must make all those teenagers happy! What more could they ever want than a cheap restaurant, a shaggy bar and a grocery store? My, my, have we done it this time. Those bloody little thugs cannot possibly resist. There's even a pawn shop!" It gets even worse. Look over here! Nature! And an elementary school! And even worse, it's west of the highway! That's about as boring and uncool as a place could posibly be! Yuck! Of course, since Colburn is a coastal city, there are people living along the beach. The people living here are naturally more executive. It's one of those places, Those that average people abhorr until they have enough money to move in themselves. The inofficial headquarters of all the city's "Sir Colin Stuckup III" kind of people. Of course, all these people need something to do while waiting for death to slowly creep up on them. What better place to do so than a typical uptown business area? They go there, sit at their desks, tap their keyboards, answer their calls, silently try to overcome the midlife crise, go back home, eat dinner and fall asleep. Only to do it all again the next day. "Oh well. Maybe I don't live the dream. Maybe I'm a nobody with a dead end job and maybe I'm doing the same thing over and over again every day. But that's okay. I'm happy with it. My wife is happy with it. I have two wonderful childen who love me. My parents are proud of me. There's a '65 Mustang in my garage. The neighbors are nice. We have a safe economy... Yeah. I do love my life."
