Opinion of Urk, a town in the Netherlands

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Like all such enclaves, it sounds like a fascinating place for any sociologist, anthropologist, folklorist, or, apparently, linguist, and thus a lot more fun than the HockeyDudes of the world give it credit for, but I wouldn't want to live there.

Fun and interesting are not one in the same, Nathan.  The progressive and freedom-loving government of Holland bestows a legal, drug-infused orgy upon these people and they would rather sit in and vote for Christian Democratic alliances.  I could only imagine what spending a day here would be like. 

Oh, come now, do imagine it! Don't tell me that hearing about places like this doesn't awaken in you any curiosity about what these people are like, what they hold in their hearts or what those hearts thrill to, what a day there is like, what they do do to enjoy themselves, what they believe (beyond the technically correct but boring and surface-level answer 'they're orthodox Calvinists'), how they understand their lives, what parts of those lives fulfill them or fail to fulfill them? Don't tell me that the process itself of discovering what 'fun' is for the people of Urk doesn't, itself, seem fun to you?

hmmm...like Boris you probably actually WOULD find attending an Ingress event to be rather fascinating.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Like all such enclaves, it sounds like a fascinating place for any sociologist, anthropologist, folklorist, or, apparently, linguist, and thus a lot more fun than the HockeyDudes of the world give it credit for, but I wouldn't want to live there.

Fun and interesting are not one in the same, Nathan.  The progressive and freedom-loving government of Holland bestows a legal, drug-infused orgy upon these people and they would rather sit in and vote for Christian Democratic alliances.  I could only imagine what spending a day here would be like. 

Oh, come now, do imagine it! Don't tell me that hearing about places like this doesn't awaken in you any curiosity about what these people are like, what they hold in their hearts or what those hearts thrill to, what a day there is like, what they do do to enjoy themselves, what they believe (beyond the technically correct but boring and surface-level answer 'they're orthodox Calvinists'), how they understand their lives, what parts of those lives fulfill them or fail to fulfill them? Don't tell me that the process itself of discovering what 'fun' is for the people of Urk doesn't, itself, seem fun to you?

hmmm...like Boris you probably actually WOULD find attending an Ingress event to be rather fascinating.

Have I ever directly claimed otherwise? I'm pretty sure I've actually asked you to explain more about Ingress on at least a couple of occasions in the past.

Yeah but I kind of understimated how much. I'll make sure to post some pics from Minneapolis September 6!

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Nathan would you ever like to visit Colorado City, Arizona?

Oh and Urk is pretty Resistance dominated...though I doubt it's people actually from Urk since that entire area in the Netherlands is. It's probably people from the nearby also Resistance locked down cities of Emmeloord and Dronten. The Enlightened seem to stick to the bigger cities, the regional center of Zwolle has a pretty strong Enlightened presence, as does Lelysted.

But Horrible Town anyway.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

We have an Urk equivalent in Minnesota:

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 1 RECOGNITION OF MARRIAGE SOLELY BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN
Prinsburg 4102 precincts in contest. 1 of 1 precincts reported.
Yes   327
No   11
Estimated Blanks   4
Estimated Total Number of Voters   342
Estimated Percent of YES*   95.61%

Republican      MITT ROMNEY AND PAUL RYAN   310   90.91%   
Democratic-Farmer-Labor      BARACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN   31   9.09%   

Have never been there.