I can imagine. When the game first came out, my friends and I would make a thing of it and take the subway into the city. Tons of stops and immense pokemon diversity. Nowadays I don't really have that kind of free time anymore (and neither do they) so I've gotta settle for my less than urban neighborhood which has got exactly one road with stops and gyms and nothing else LOL. Still, living in the shadow of one of the world's biggest cities gives me ample pokemon that pop up on my screen whenever I log in.
I will say I'm lucky enough to have a campus where there's an absolute ton of stops and gyms so I can sit in the building and get items, take a quick walk around after lectures are done, and still be satisfied.
Not sure how the process to make something into a stop goes but some of the things here are literally such a stretch. Maybe you can apply to get some more near your house? A lot of the stuff in more rural areas is criminally underrated.
Ah that must have been cool. I was in the U.S. for the launch, but as Apple are so restrictive I couldn't download it with my UK Apple ID, despite being in the states for a year. Definitely saw a lot of people playing it though!
Yeah when I was a student it was pretty decent, I'd basically get into it for about 4 months then get bored. But my flat in my final year was
just out of range of one unless my phone's GPS got confused. Post-covid it would probably be in-range haha
I got lucky, I've just been moved to wfh - when I was in the office I could walk a kilometre to a place that had 3 stops, play for half an hour, then walk back - at a point where I have no healing items (far from ideal with the Rocket takeover), but about 300 balls so by being judicious I can store them up. Obviously if I decide to hunt for another shiny Meltan, I'll have to spend some time in town. I've started "helping" with the family shop on Community Day so I can actually get some shinies - as I posted previously, this most recent one went very well!