they don't make them like this anymore

their tongues do

Yes, it's Ridgecrest, I lived there, although Perfection specifically looks more like 70's Banning than anything around there. It was pretty humble high desert living as a kid, but in addition to it becoming Little Mexico over the course of a decade, cartels started opening grow ops up in the desert, to where their cousins (CA cops and feds) just threw up their hands and went
>hey cartels operate in the open desert areas so gosh could you just stick to civilization and stop heckin dirtbiking???? yes we know this is ground-zero for dirtbike culture but can you literally not??????
even though their shitty fertilizer poisons the groundwater, and their shitty pesticides kill the bees. You need to speak Spanish if you want a wageslavery job at the bare minimum. It's so bad there now, even in the little towns. People deserve execution for fricking California up, but the state is going to look practically unlivable before someone realizes what has to be done

Most of the middle of America is sparsely populated. There's a reason they're known as 'fly over states'

There were a frickton of people living where they filmed Tremors, you're only seeing the rocky hellscapes that begin the moment you get close to mountains, even in the desert, CA has multiple pockets of forests where you'd least expect them. You really only need to hop on one of several passes to get somewhere fun, assuming CalTrans isn't working as slow as possible with one open lane DURING THE DAY because they get sooooooo sleeeeeeeeepy by nighttime. It's because of the relatively streamlined highway system that even a tiny house that's mostly-windows that'll heats like a greenhouse goes for nearly a million in a shithole town like Barstow - it's a state of people buying homes not to live, but for ease of commute

Depends on how they do it in different states, but around here this would probably be an unincorporated township, not a city.

what would a car help for? id be spending more on gas. cars are only for people who own houses, not live in an apartment and no one can afford to buy houses anymore

i can ride my bike but i shouldnt have to since the the store was in a major mall and was the only location closed in the whole city, theres 2-3 other locations in the city but their selections were always shit and the animes were way overpriced. they dont even have instore ordering.
if you want to be competitive with online stores you need instore ordering for people who dont want the hassle, its even better for the store since they are always making profit by over charging and the "shipping fee" even tho im not needing it for over night bullshit