R.D.Davis wrote:
> John Foust wrote:
> > There's a real drive-in movie
> > theater on the edge of town. We're 35 minutes from a Starbucks
> > or real boiled bagels, though.
>
> That sounds like a good place to live! Is not an area's quality of
> life inversely proportional to the existence of bagel shops or
> Starbucks coffee shops? Both types of businesses appear to be
> indications of an area on the fringe of decay, such as an area about
> to turn into a city, an area that's trying to mimic one of the United
> States' best examples of putrid places: New York City.
I'll give you the Starbucks -- but good bagel shops are a good thing.
That is places that sell mainly bagels -- not lattes and bagels.
Bill
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