"The barn's pretty much empty. It's more for storage of junk than anything useful." Jim jerks his thumb back the way he and Clint had come. I'll show you around the property a bit though. Rosa's place is about a mile that way." Jim waves his flashlight down the empty road a ways.
"The other way heads into town eventually. There's a dive bar I always hung out at, scamming truckers and getting to know the new fleet recruits every now and again when they'd be at the shipyard for deployment. See all those lights out that way? It's the town, sure, but more importantly, the shipyard's out there, keeping the fleet up and running. Just one of 20 some odd facilities across the country. Most of the rural land that's left is either old property handed down or government owned these days. Folks tend to live in the cities or out on colonies. Way cheaper than staying planetside nowadays. We rent most of our land out to Rosa's family. They do some ranching and raise horses. Least they did a few years ago."
There's not much of a garden around the edge of the house--Frank was never one for upkeeping anything. Family or otherwise, so anything that used to be there has long since died. It's a bit overgrown, but not so bad you'd assume the place is abandoned. The road is actually gravel, typical of even 2010s in rural areas, but maybe weird to them for being so far into the future. Considering most vehicles don't touch the roadside anymore, it's more for city planning and road laws than for traction and actual use.
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"The other way heads into town eventually. There's a dive bar I always hung out at, scamming truckers and getting to know the new fleet recruits every now and again when they'd be at the shipyard for deployment. See all those lights out that way? It's the town, sure, but more importantly, the shipyard's out there, keeping the fleet up and running. Just one of 20 some odd facilities across the country. Most of the rural land that's left is either old property handed down or government owned these days. Folks tend to live in the cities or out on colonies. Way cheaper than staying planetside nowadays. We rent most of our land out to Rosa's family. They do some ranching and raise horses. Least they did a few years ago."
There's not much of a garden around the edge of the house--Frank was never one for upkeeping anything. Family or otherwise, so anything that used to be there has long since died. It's a bit overgrown, but not so bad you'd assume the place is abandoned. The road is actually gravel, typical of even 2010s in rural areas, but maybe weird to them for being so far into the future. Considering most vehicles don't touch the roadside anymore, it's more for city planning and road laws than for traction and actual use.