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6/19/2025, 1:39:09 AM
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You misunderstand, it's not the 'only' community I had thought up, it's just the biggest one, the main hub where all the trading and bartering and whoring happens. But my problem is that I can't actually figure out how populated it should be that it could feasibly provide all the services and feel 'big' and bustling by the standards of a world destroyed by nuclear war. Originally my idea was for it to have a population of 2,000 people, I thought
>yeah that sounds like a bustling but still ramshackle post apocalyptic shantytown
But then I googled a bunch of small towns in the southwest, and I got for example Van Horn Texas, population 2,000 roughly, and this just looks like a sleepy little small town to me. There is no way there's enough people here to have a bunch of brothels and strip clubs and casinos and illicit back alley drug pushers unless nearly everybody in town was an employee of one, right?
That's what I'm getting lost in the weeds over, I can't really visualize how many people it would take to make a city feel big enough that it could be described as 'bustling' but still small enough that it also feels like it's the crappy best the remnants of humanity can slap together, you know what I mean?
I know it's retarded and I should just slap any random number on it and say good enough and move on, but these are the kind of autistic walls I run into when worldbuilding. Tiny shit like this that just nag at me.
You misunderstand, it's not the 'only' community I had thought up, it's just the biggest one, the main hub where all the trading and bartering and whoring happens. But my problem is that I can't actually figure out how populated it should be that it could feasibly provide all the services and feel 'big' and bustling by the standards of a world destroyed by nuclear war. Originally my idea was for it to have a population of 2,000 people, I thought
>yeah that sounds like a bustling but still ramshackle post apocalyptic shantytown
But then I googled a bunch of small towns in the southwest, and I got for example Van Horn Texas, population 2,000 roughly, and this just looks like a sleepy little small town to me. There is no way there's enough people here to have a bunch of brothels and strip clubs and casinos and illicit back alley drug pushers unless nearly everybody in town was an employee of one, right?
That's what I'm getting lost in the weeds over, I can't really visualize how many people it would take to make a city feel big enough that it could be described as 'bustling' but still small enough that it also feels like it's the crappy best the remnants of humanity can slap together, you know what I mean?
I know it's retarded and I should just slap any random number on it and say good enough and move on, but these are the kind of autistic walls I run into when worldbuilding. Tiny shit like this that just nag at me.
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