“Who are you?”

“I’m a traveler, looking to live in a new place.”

“Where did you come from?”

“I came from a town called Sea Three. Why do you ask?”

“No reason, really. Just wondered, is all. Tell me about your town. Was it nice?”

“Well, not all that much, not in my opinion anyway. People were not always friendly nor supportive. It seemed like the town’s leadership wasn’t what we all wanted. Sometimes we got the impression that it wasn’t going far.

“So I and a group of others decided to look for a new town. What sort of a place is this?”

“Well, Sea Six is a place pretty much like the town you came from. You’ve got pretty much the same kinds of people, same town leadership, and same groups and cliques all out to advance their agendas.

“A lot of people came here thinking that it would be a good place to work and raise a family, but surprisingly, after a while they started complaining again that Sea Six wasn’t the sort of place that they thought it might be, and a lot of them left. Quite a few headed back to Sea Three, in fact. We’re not sure what to do with ourselves now, but we’re optimistic that someday, we’ll once again flourish.”

“Gee, I had thought that Sea Six was everything that Sea Three wasn’t. I heard it was progressive and forward thinking, and that it was a great place to raise kids. No?”

“We thought it would be, but nobody felt like paying for streets and roads, schools and police, and after a while, it became clear that without an infrastructure, we couldn’t really build the kind of town we wanted.”

“A shame to be be sure. Well, I might as well head on back to Sea Three and revisit. I’ve still got a lot of friends there. Now that I think of it, it had some pretty decent people living in it. Thanks for talking with me.”

“Don’t mention it. Really.”

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