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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 3, 2019 0:02:33 GMT -5
I grew up in a town of about 21,000, and I always assumed stoneybrook was like that. Everyone knows everyone’s kids and parents, etc.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Jan 13, 2019 2:54:30 GMT -5
I grew up in a town of about 21,000, and I always assumed stoneybrook was like that. Everyone knows everyone’s kids and parents, etc. I think that’s about the right size. And people do leave or move to the area.
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Post by cnj on Jan 13, 2019 22:40:55 GMT -5
I grew up in a town of about 21,000, and I always assumed stoneybrook was like that. Everyone knows everyone’s kids and parents, etc. Not necessarily...in the BSC's neighborhoods, most people know each other, but not the entire town of Stoneybrook. E.G., when Mary Anne is an elf at Washington Mall in The Secret Life of Mary Anne Spier, she doesn't know every kid she sees there nor had she and her co-worker, Angela ever met. In Mallory's Dream Horse, when Mallory takes riding lessons at a stable in the rural part of Stoneybrook, Mallory doesn't know any of the other kids there and they don't know her. And when Kristy's family first moves to McLelland Court, the only people Kristy and her brothers know is their new stepsiblings and Watson and his family. So, no, Stoneybrook is NOT any one-horse, everyone-knows-everyone sort of town. I still say Stoneybrook is a large town...some people know one another, but not everyone.
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Post by sparklymouse on Jan 15, 2019 9:59:33 GMT -5
I grew up in a town of about 9000 (it's bigger now, haha). There's a lot of six degrees of separation relationships, but you don't literally know everyone. My graduating class had a Facebook group at one point, and I had no idea who the guy who started it was. I apparently went to school with him for 6 years, haha.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 17, 2019 22:12:53 GMT -5
I grew up in a town of about 21,000, and I always assumed stoneybrook was like that. Everyone knows everyone’s kids and parents, etc. Not necessarily...in the BSC's neightborhoods, most people know each other, but the entire town of Stoneybrook. E.G., when Mary Anne is an elf at Washington Mall in The Secret Life of Mary Anne Spier, she doesn't know every kid she sees there nor had she and her co-worker, Angela ever met. In Mallory's Dream Horse, when Mallory takes riding lessons at a stable in the rural part of Stoneybrook, Mallory doesn't know any of the other kids there and they don't know her. And when Kristy's family first moves to McLelland Court, the only people Kristy and her brothers know is their new stepsiblings and Watson and his family. So, no, Stoneybrook is NOT any one-horse, everyone-knows-everyone sort of town. I still say Stoneybrook is a large town...some people know one another, but not everyone. I did not mean that Stoneybrook is podunk. It’s small enough so that the club is familiar with families in MANY neighborhoods. And Washington Mall is not in Stoneybrook.
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Post by cnj on Jan 18, 2019 4:09:49 GMT -5
Not necessarily...in the BSC's neighborhoods, most people know each other, but the entire town of Stoneybrook. E.G., when Mary Anne is an elf at Washington Mall in The Secret Life of Mary Anne Spier, she doesn't know every kid she sees there nor had she and her co-worker, Angela ever met. In Mallory's Dream Horse, when Mallory takes riding lessons at a stable in the rural part of Stoneybrook, Mallory doesn't know any of the other kids there and they don't know her. And when Kristy's family first moves to McLelland Court, the only people Kristy and her brothers know is their new stepsiblings and Watson and his family. So, no, Stoneybrook is NOT any one-horse, everyone-knows-everyone sort of town. I still say Stoneybrook is a large town...some people know one another, but not everyone. I did not mean that Stoneybrook is podunk. It’s small enough so that the club is familiar with families in MANY neighborhoods. And Washington Mall is not in Stoneybrook. Good, glad you see that Stoneybrook is not that tiny. Yes, Stoneybrook has many neighborhoods, not just a small handful of neighborhoods. Washington Mall might not be in the heart of Stoneybrook, but it is close enough for the BSC to bus there comfortably on their own. Not to mention that Stoneybrook is less than an hour away from New York City.
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Post by cnj on Jan 18, 2019 4:15:36 GMT -5
I grew up in a town of about 21,000... That sounds more like Sweet Valley...Sweet Valley is a small town where almost everyone knows almost everyone.
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