Update: conditions are better now. At least livable.
Years ago I had a stories to steal section where I would put down my experiences or of other TI's you wanted to remain anonymous and embellish them or mix them up so at least people could have some understanding of what TI is going through without anybody incriminating themselves or making it easy for authorities to frame them up in some way. This is a continuation of these series. If you want to take anything out of this story for your own story or for anything you're writing that's fiction please do so. However I do not want to disinformation agents and fakes and posers and cons stealing this information posing as genuine long suffering heroes known as targeted individuals:
Every building structure can be effected and there's no shortage of people to be recruited.
You are living in a small city thats had a major lone shooting incident some years ago. It occurred at an office building that had many businesses serving military contractors such as accounting. You have a close relative who worked in that office building and had left just 2 weeks before the shooting. She had to quit her job due to an extremely abusive work environment (her manager actually slapped her in the face) which she did not report out of fear.
There is a major training facility nearby for a branch of military reserve.
Adjoining this small city is a city that's known for its historical connections to organized crime.
The area is swampy yet someone thought it was a great idea to run major power lines through the area. The property you live on is within a range of those lines listed as potentially causing health problems.
The power lines lead to a relay station that's on the other side of the property but further away. This creates electromagnetic pollution and potentially an environment where strange things can occur.
This is all on an alleged nature reserve where that much man made pollution cannot be good for any living thing in the vicinity much less to 'preserve nature'.
The nature preserve has to be the creepiest wooded areas you've ever encountered in your travels around the USA-anywhere. It was used as hunting grounds for Native Americans who inexplicably disappeared as one man was listed as it's owner in the area's early history. His fate was to be murdered by his caretaker, his body dumped in another city's adjoining woods. The north east colonials appears noble when it comes to early Native-Colonial interactions because they utilized tactics like starvation and pushing Natives out by sneaky means in their quest for Manifest Destiny as opposed to well documented and often photographed battles in the western United States. One infamous photo of Native Americans being dumped into mass a grave by victorious soldiers and locals is one such examples. So compare to that, the Yankee knack for being smart and sneaky putting on a good front for the public and for history is hard to detect unless research is done
(Deer Island is one such example of how clever Yankees can get rid of a good amount of undesireables without being obvious to history. The island is used as a waste treatment plant because no one will set foot on it for any other purpose.)
The city is in a large historic area that's part of the colonial origins of your state as well as the entire country. The local history involves things like witch hunts and persecution basically ending in violence especially towards women and ironically perpetrated by a culture fleeing Europe due to religious persecution which in hindsight makes England appear sensible. theories that allege ergot poisoning, 'hysteria' or a curse from a slave woman of Carribean descent but evidence points towards the cause being human evil, class rivalry, entitlement especially of children to mistreat others and human greed to procure other people's land.
The city's character is charming in its preservation of what you remember as as a child, the area has elements that seem frozen in time from 40 years ago. However, you'd forgotten that probably means the locals will mob you if you make one wrong move out of sync with idyllic suburbia. Youngsters actively perform harassment and theater which you have not seen children anywhere in the USA in all your years traveling being capable of in its organization and it's sophistication. High school age kids behave like soldiers where you are the enemy that's been dehumanized by their training and you only exist we a walking target in their perception. It's a bad twighlight zone episode. You often wonder if these are the direct descendents of the colonials as you can envision that this must have been the kind of human behavior that prompted the witch trials and executions.
You realize there's a reason you prefer olde money, wealthy communities, college areas, poor ones that host alternative culture or neighborhoods defined by strong ethnic culture. Oddly you realize that being near a college or a military contractor or a military base has actually been the safest places for you which makes absolutely no sense.
You realize why you are comfortable with upper middle areas even though they don't hold the fascination of those aforementioned and thankfully there's one just down a bus line. Middle class communities are difficult and probably always will be. At least the one you reside in seems capable of protecting itself from the colonialism of globalism. An adjoining city just north and east seems to have succumbed and is close to intolerable.
Again you think: where is the closest college? You look at the map, one more time hoping you missed something.
You have in your domicile someone who has morphed into a cross between a specialist in torture. You don't know if this person is acting out of a system of limited motivations or has been pulled into the larger system of reward and protection but it's like living with a cross between Ron Howard's character in the Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life" and Jason Striker from X-Men.
You contemplate if the environment on your floor has been altered through artificial means even electromagnetic pollution and the worsening feeling is merely being induced. This is partially validated as an act as simple as going down a set of stairs to a lower floor seems to return everything to normal and stepping outside clears things completely. Youve noticed a severe change for the worst after two different well known telecommunications companies had vans out recently rewiring on a few poles nearby the building. You recall your learning experiences in other states where these effects are much easier to fight or block out.
You keep getting this feeling you need to leave. It's time to go. Leave everyone behind and go back on your own like pre 2016. Leave behind everything you've built and don't try to finish. Let people who depend on you fend for themselves.
Humans should not live in a world where behavior modification is a past of daily life. To live so unatislly is a crime.
