[quote=“AcerPlatanoides, post:38, topic:74298, full:true”]Same people though. Same humanity, different clothes.
Also, I lived in Willits CA for a spell. I’ve seen the rodeo.
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Maybe not; seriously remote towns are something special.
In my neighbourhood (i.e. only a few thousand km away), there’s a town called Andamooka. To get to it, you follow the Stuart Highway through the desert until you reach Woomera (where the Brits tested their nukes in the '50’s), then turn east through the uranium mining towns of Roxby Downs and Olympic Dam.
At the end of that road is Andamooka.
It’s an opal mining town. But, unlike the other outback opal towns (Lightning Ridge, Coober Pedy), the locals don’t live underground to shelter from the 50+C heat. Instead, they live in a collection of broken-down vehicles and corrugated iron shanties.
Andamooka is so small that it has no local police presence. Instead, once a month, a “locum” cop visits the town. When he does, the population drops by two-thirds, as a large percentage of the local people are there because they have outstanding warrants.
Full-throttle Mad Max country.
