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Re:Haruki Murakami and the Scarcity of Serious Thought by FooHentai on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @04:39AM (#27589346)
In 1980? Not much different to today. The population then was 125k, today it is about 175k.
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Re:Haruki Murakami and the Scarcity of Serious Thought by dnh44 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @05:21AM (#27602483)
Yeah even back then the population density is way higher than anywhere I've ever lived.

However I still take issue with the original argument of:

> just in case anyone was falling for the romantic falsehood this line was selling.

I don't think it's misrepresented anything. The original comment in the article is:

>Narashino, a small town in the largely rural Chiba Prefecture

Whatever it's population density is, 175k people is still a small town.

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Re:Haruki Murakami and the Scarcity of Serious Thought by CRConrad on Saturday June 26, 2021 @05:09PM (#27645880)
Everything is relative. To me, and a lot of people I know who grew up in small towns, 175,000 people certainly isn't "small".
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