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@Marilou wrote:
Storybrook has no choice but to exist they cannot humanly produce all the goods they have so, they have contact with the outside world (we also saw Kathryn apply to Boston university and get accepted).
That’s one thing that always stumps me, how did they get the provisions to survive, because they’d have to have come from the outside world somehow. The only thing I’ve come up with to explain it stems from the idea that you have to know about it in order to find it. So if Regina arranges for things to be delivered, the delivery people get explicit directions. Then perhaps the city limit has an affect on real world people in that they forget about it once they cross back into the real world. That way, there’s no risk of a delivery guy saying to his wife, “I went to this lovely little town in Maine once, there was a B&B called Granny’s, maybe we could go there for our anniversary vacay.” Anyway, I dunno if how SB gets clothes and food and whatnot imported is necessarily something that’ll ever be explained. I suspect it’s just something we might have to suspend some disbelief over, and just accept that it happens somehow.
As far as things like Kathryn getting into university, and MM being sent to jail, and arranging for Hansel and Gretel to go to Children’s Services, I’m just not convinced that those things were legit. If Regina controls the lines of communication in and out of the town, she can say that anything and everything has been arranged with organisations out of town, knowing that if anyone tries to leave, something bad will happen at the city limits and those people won’t be a concern any more. Think about it, if Boston Children’s Services was legit waiting on two kids to arrive, and they didn’t, (and Regina knew that something would happen to prevent them from leaving SB, coz that’s just how it works), that’s gonna raise questions in real world organisations that will want answers, which means people will start getting curious about SB. Regina doesn’t want that hassle, so I think she keeps it all contained and faked.