I wrote a book called "Crap Towns". It seemed funny at the time

Re:I wrote a book called "Crap Towns". It seemed funny at th... by Yossarrian22 on Friday April 25, 2025 @09:49PM (#43800205)

The problem is those towns weren’t crap within living memory when the books were written. Now anyone who remembers otherwise is close to dead

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Re:I wrote a book called "Crap Towns". It seemed funny at th... by jhbadger on Friday April 25, 2025 @10:20PM (#43800359)

Some of them maybe have gentrified (not to ignore that this in itself isn't 100% a good thing). Others are if anything worse than when he wrote the book.

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Re:I wrote a book called "Crap Towns". It seemed funny at th... by notahacker on Saturday April 26, 2025 @07:08AM (#43802582)

Nah, several of them were always running jokes, some of them were a lot worse a decade or three earlier, and some of them were picked far more for their snobbishness or for being homogenous sanitised suburbia than their decline.

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