January blog the second

[andpuff]

Someone asked about living in Toronto and someone asked about living in the country. For those of you without cats who hunt, the spleeny bits are what's leftover. When you step on them, they go pop-squish.

Comments

[tibicina]

I believe, in part, that is because when it was originally written it was based on Lake Arrowhead, CA, which is a... weird, weird place. It has a lot more people than it looks like because they're all actually spread out into a bunch of little tiny communities which are all officially part of 'Lake Arrowhead'. And even in those communities the terrain and the trees and the way the roads twist and wind mean that the sight lines are all broken up. Also, at any given time about 1/3 of the population isn't actually there. There are people who live there year round, but there are a lot more people who use it as either a summer home (because they like boating or get summer's off or whatever) or a winter home (Ooooh skiing), and I'm not sure how they count transient population or things where a large family owns a cabin, but don't really /live/ there.

I still think you're right that 51,000 is high, but it's perhaps not quite as high as you'd think for an official sign for the whole area.

Eta: Never mind, having gone to actually check, the official population is about 10,000. (Though I think that really is only the permanent residents, which means the effective population of people who live there for at least a month every year is likely much higher.)