this city is hopeless.

the landlords don't think it's a real problem.

the management companies don't want to rent to non-smokers.

even the managers at the non-smoking buildings (a policy that is mostly being pushed down by corporate head offices out of town) don't want to rent to non-smokers. you call them up, and they tell you they don't enforce it.

the people that live here want to smoke, and want to tell the world to fuck off if they don't like it.

and, maybe the world should just get up and leave them to their lonely deaths - and take the jobs and wealth with us, when we do.

i came here hoping to build a new society in the wreckage of the old one, and found a population that is clinging to the society that has abandoned it. you can't rebuild unless people are willing to destroy what used to be, first.

they just want to sit back and chain smoke in the smouldering ruins...

maybe i'll come back when they're dead.

i dunno.