Pearcore #6

Cleveland North Dakota by a closed cafe.  There must have been limited signal in the area, so these posts didn't make it to the blog until the next day.  The cafe looked permanently closed, and fairly recently so.  A restaurant the other side of the train track was also boarded up.  Sounds were still coming from the animal feed factory opposite, and people living in the area.  I wonder if the local stores closed because of competition from the nearby city, or because people don't want to congregate anymore?  I imagine all these people in their homes communing online with other people elsewhere in remote corners of the world, instead of with each other, or maybe vicariously living the life of the city through friends in LA or Tokyo.