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HEY YOU! Yes, you. Stop picking that and answer this: what is the city, town or village where you live like?
Is it wIlDlY eXcItInG and tremendous fun, with trampolines instead of pavements, HoVeRbOaRdS for all and free ice cream being handed out on every street corner? Or is it sooooooo incredibly dull and BrAiN-NuMbInGlY bOrInG it makes you want to pour several bottles of tomato ketchup into your own PaNtS just for something to do?
The answer is probably somewhere in between. Some cool areas and some parts where the most exciting thing to do is visit the nAtIoNaL BeLlY-bUtToN FlUfF AnD eArWaX mUsEuM.
But if you think YoU’vE GoT iT BaD, at least you don’t have an area of your town that is sPeCiFiCaLlY named after insects that suck your BlOoD and give you awful dIsEaSeS.
Hey kids! Guess where we´re moving to?
Please don´t say Mosquitoville.
Mosquitoville!
Sigh.
In the Aztec’s great city of Tenochtitlán there were four quarters: Place of the Gods, Place of the Flowers, Place of the Herons . . . and, errr, Place of the Mosquitoes.
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