"Yeah, more or less. Huh, how to put it..." She bends over and starts drawing on the ground, not that it does much good without anything to draw with, but it is possible to get a sense for the geography of the Puget Sound region in 2070.
"The Seattle metroplex is all one city, right? An' technically that includes Red Town, Puyallup, everything. But, really, when people talk about 'Seattle,' they mean downtown. That's where the corps are headquartered, where the SINners live. See, there's this thing called a SIN, it's basically a global ID, and if you don't have a SIN respectable people don't do business with you. You can't get hired, can't rent a house, can't get healthcare, nothin'. The people with SINs get to live in nice places. People without SINs don't get to live in nice places. An' gettin' a SIN if you weren't born with one costs, like, serious money."
She shrugs. "That's oversimplifying a bit, people with SINs get pushed into the slums if they get poor or whatever, but I grew up SINless, living in Red Town. Which means," and she draws a line in the air, over her invisible map, hard and sure, "I don't get to go outside Red Town. Ever. There's a wall set up specifically to make sure people like me don't go where the respectable people live and ruin their view."
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"The Seattle metroplex is all one city, right? An' technically that includes Red Town, Puyallup, everything. But, really, when people talk about 'Seattle,' they mean downtown. That's where the corps are headquartered, where the SINners live. See, there's this thing called a SIN, it's basically a global ID, and if you don't have a SIN respectable people don't do business with you. You can't get hired, can't rent a house, can't get healthcare, nothin'. The people with SINs get to live in nice places. People without SINs don't get to live in nice places. An' gettin' a SIN if you weren't born with one costs, like, serious money."
She shrugs. "That's oversimplifying a bit, people with SINs get pushed into the slums if they get poor or whatever, but I grew up SINless, living in Red Town. Which means," and she draws a line in the air, over her invisible map, hard and sure, "I don't get to go outside Red Town. Ever. There's a wall set up specifically to make sure people like me don't go where the respectable people live and ruin their view."