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In a Town of 11 People, Mysterious Disappearance Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor

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Re: In a Town of 11 People, Mysterious Disappearance Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor

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Post by ggm »

This obviously made news here in Australia as well, and it has qualities which I think anyone who has read 'hillbilly elegy' can relate to: in small communities, sometimes there is a cone of silence which is really strong, and quite at odds with what we think of as "the law"

Obviously, people know things. But, as a small community, there is a 'hang together, or hang separately' quality here. They are very isolated, and they have strong mutual dependencies even if they don't want to acknowledge it.

So.. sometimes the "best" outcome they work out for themselves is just not to talk to outsiders.

Re: In a Town of 11 People, Mysterious Disappearance Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor

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Post by ggm »

moltar wrote: post #9

I’m more amazed that a town of 11 people has a bar and a hotel. But also that so much drama exists in such small community.

An Australian outback community needs three things to sustain and survive: a doctor (GP) a bank and a pub. Well.. in the final analysis, a pub will do.

BTW, colloquially a "hotel" is a pub. Its not impossible town has two watering holes... not one. This is not that dissimilar to a situation I've seen in small Italian rural communities: one drinking hole which the left wing sit at, and one the right wing sit at. (or greece, or half a dozen other rural economies)

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Post by reaperducer »

moltar wrote: post #9

I’m more amazed that a town of 11 people has a bar and a hotel. But also that so much drama exists in such small community.

I’m more amazed that a town of 11 people has a bar and a hotel.

According to Big G and OSM, it also has a post office, a museum, and a Devonshire tea house. You can't miss the tea house. It's across the street from the road marked "Rubbish Dump."

Also be sure to check out the six-foot-tall plaster Pink Panther in the lawn chair next to the 20-foot-tall beer bottle.

http://ttnotes.com/larrimah-museum.html#gal_post_21157_larri...

Small towns are the same everywhere.

Re: In a Town of 11 People, Mysterious Disappearance Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor

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Post by reaperducer »

booleandilemma wrote: post #13

What if they’re all in on it?

Then they'll have to get Hercule Poirot to investigate.

(For those of you who don't read classic mysteries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_on_the_Orient_Express)

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Post by flukus »

ggm wrote: post #12
moltar wrote: post #9

I’m more amazed that a town of 11 people has a bar and a hotel. But also that so much drama exists in such small community.

An Australian outback community needs three things to sustain and survive: a doctor (GP) a bank and a pub. Well.. in the final analysis, a pub will do. BTW, colloquially a "hotel" is a pub. Its not impossible town has two watering holes... not one. This is not that dissimilar to a situation I've seen in small Italian rural communities: one drinking hole which the left wing sit at, and one the right wing sit at. (or g…

> An Australian outback community needs three things to sustain and survive: a doctor (GP) a bank and a pub. Well.. in the final analysis, a pub will do.

Last time I drove through it was more like a pub, a service/gas station and a crystal/woo shop.

Re: In a Town of 11 People, Mysterious Disappearance Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor

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Post by craftyguy »

ggm wrote: post #11

This obviously made news here in Australia as well, and it has qualities which I think anyone who has read 'hillbilly elegy' can relate to: in small communities, sometimes there is a cone of silence which is really strong, and quite at odds with what we think of as "the law" Obviously, people know things. But, as a small community, there is a 'hang together, or hang separately' quality here. They are very isolated, a…

> sometimes there is a cone of silence which is really strong, and quite at odds with what we think of as "the law"

Reminds me of the plot of the movie Hot Fuzz.

Re: In a Town of 11 People, Mysterious Disappearance Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor

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Post by kirubakaran »

craftyguy wrote: post #17
ggm wrote: post #11

This obviously made news here in Australia as well, and it has qualities which I think anyone who has read 'hillbilly elegy' can relate to: in small communities, sometimes there is a cone of silence which is really strong, and quite at odds with what we think of as "the law" Obviously, people know things. But, as a small community, there is a 'hang together, or hang separately' quality here. They are very isolated, a…

> sometimes there is a cone of silence which is really strong, and quite at odds with what we think of as "the law" Reminds me of the plot of the movie Hot Fuzz.

Yeah I decided idyllic English villages aren't for me, after watching Hot Fuzz and Midsomer Murders.
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