So the Noose was a great place to live if you didn’t have anywhere else to go
and didn’t mind competing with the gangs for space and thought you could defend
yourself against the ghouls that had moved into the Shattergraves, the 
four-square-block area destroyed when the IBM Tower had collapsed. But pickings 
were scarce in the Noose. Peter preferred to live where rich people were, 
because they could afford to waste, discard, or simply lose plenty of stuff for 
scavenging.