On Wednesday the new WalMart Supercenter opened. It's 200,000 square feet of cheap, shoddy, Chinese-made crap.
It's less than 5 miles from the WalMart Supercenter that opened in November. That one is also 200,000 square feet of cheap, shoddy, Chinese-made crap.
Both are less than 10 miles from the other two Walmarts, which, although not "super", are each 150,000 square feet of cheap, shoddy, Chinese-made crap.
By my rough calculation, that's 2 square feet of cheap, shoddy, Chinese-made crap for every man, woman and child of Bakersfield.
And as far as I can tell, that's about all there is to Bakersfield. There's no "there" here. It's one ginormous suburb that's all "sub" and no "urb". People go about their lives, work a 40 hour week so they can then go blow it all at Walmart. And then go in Monday morning and do it all over again. Maybe eat at Applebee's, or Olive Garden, or some other massive corporate "casual dining" chain.
The sad thing is there's actually a quaint part of downtown. Cool, older buildings that anywhere else would've been renovated into unique stores, restaurants, maybe galleries. But all the storefronts sit empty or boarded up. They'll be having none of that Commie "unique" crap here, thank you very much. They'll do the American thing and buy crap made by real Commies... at Walmart.
It's some weird hive mentally. Actually, it's more like sheep. Conformity rules the day here, and no one colors outside the lines. And as far as I can tell, that's how they like it. You could really see it around the holidays in the front yards. Everyone had the same shabby decorations, the same inflatable monstrosities, the same lights, the same wreaths. Why? Because it was all at Walmart.
And it was cheap.
And disposable.
Like your free will.
