(June 26, 2014 at 5:33 am)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: There's a Mormon enclave up the road from where I live in England. I'd have thought they'd have targeted poor and more desperate areas but for some reason they set up shop in one of the most wealthy parts of my city where everyone is a skeptical asshole (right next to the university too and almost everyone around here is an academic of some sort).
They might target poor and desperate people, but that doesn't mean that they want their HQ is a crappy part of town; having it in a reasonably affluent area tells people that they can afford the rent on their building and that they're posh and awesome. Plus, if they need to bring any poor or desperate people to their HQ they might use the location as an incentive to the person: "If you join us, you could get a nice house in this area of town, you could afford rent on a building like this, you don't have to live on the wrong side of the tracks in you join the Dark Sid--er, I mean, our church."
They might also have "branch offices" in the bad part of town and the one you're by serves as the area HQ building or something.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
