Groundhog dream

I woke up from one of those groundhog day dreams that reset whenever you die
and half awake pondered it until I had a whole theory of the multiverse to go with it.

It was either at the poles or on an ice planet, and I thought ice planet, so that was cool.

We were in a hollowed out ice base, trying to get the ship repaired and get out of there before whatever it was that kept resetting us happened. Getting closer to it too.

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Today I setracked myself by wondering hiw many people lived in Sunnydale
(38,500 as per sign in School Hard, but one wonders about attrition)
and Beacon Hills (about 30K says google)

and then wondering what towns in England are about that size.
(I just added Wales and Scotland but haven't looked up the towns)
(I looked up quite a few towns in the 30K range today.)

Exmouth and Lichfield sound like good places for stories.
... mostly from the names.
... Lichfield has a cathedral and many excellent listed buildings so there's some lovely looking locations to film in.



It just seemed funny that some writers sat down and decided that was about the right size for multiple seasons of tv and could materialise locations as necessary.
Setting things in real places is more limiting though, and implies nasty things about horror monster residents
but many non sf stories seem to manage it, and anything set in London.

Also if stuff is set in London then you only wouldn't hear about it because it got lost in the everything happens at once.
If it happened in some of those thirty thousand people towns you wouldn't hear about it because nobody outside the county even knows the town names.



Where I live is like half that size, maybe two thirds by now.
I somehow dont feel like that means half the stories could happen.
But at the same time many stories can definitely happen, I'd just feel like they needed shrinking. Not vampire gangs, just vampire families, sort of thing.



Also a place lends itself to different stories if it's a place in itself or a place to sleep and travel from or somewhere trying not to be an ex place, you know?

A lot of towns are on the coast or on an old railway line and have bios that are like 'in its hayday'
and a bunch of paragraphs about when things were demolished.


And any seaside resort has a whole set of offseason stories.




I dont know, I'm thinking about the geography of horror now, but it seems unkind...