Privacy is difficult, at best, and anonymity is impossible. It's awfully easy to develop a reputation and terribly unlikely to live one down. If the local industry has left and there's nobody moving in, the inwardness is practically unbearable, and the stagnation is absolutely inevitable. The only church is closed because they couldn't pay a preacher. The Spitfire Grill is up for sale, but nobody wants to buy it.
Relationships are weary from the relentless strain of constant attention.
And of course, the one thing that is needed most, change, is the one thing that frightens everybody the most. And afterwards, everyone had a kind of new life or, at the very least, a different point of view on their old ones, which is as close to repentance as some of us ever get. All rights reserved.