Pottsvegas is a slow sort of town where the people spend their time doing their thing, visiting folks, but not generally causing much of a ruckus. It's not exciting enough to cause a ruckus in.

The most memorable thing I've heard someone say about it was my mom saying when she was a kid all the adults were drunk and all the kids were high. There's just not much else to do.

Lot of people go to church, have gardens, drive a long ways off to work, work for big factory corporations.

But the housing bubble put in way too many tracts of developed land where before there were thousands of trees and now the houses are there to stay, empty scars of a greedy boil.