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[[caption-width-right:350:So middle of nowhere, it [[LineOfSightName became it's actual name!]]]]

* Deconstructed in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'', as Homura begins to realize that the Mitakihara the cast are living in cannot be the real Mitakihara because attempting to leave for the supposedly neighboring city of Kazamino where Kyoko is from results in them looping right back around to the other side of Mitakihara. This is her first hint that they might be in a Witch's Labyrinth. [[spoiler: She's right. Oh, boy, [[TomatoInTheMirror is she right.]]]]

'''Miss Peters:''' Mary-Sue, you should know the answer to that! The end of Main Street is just the beginning again!

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Furinkan. One fanfic suggests that the weirdness of Furinkan is, in fact, well known. However, the bizarre creatures and rampant property damage have long since become routine. The rest of the world is merely happy to not live there. This theory does well to explain most of the more severe cases of Nowhere Street.
* Fuka Academy in ''Anime/MyHime'', despite being fairly close to a town, otherwise seems to be surrounded by nothing but GhibliHills. Apart from the need to come up with rational explanations for the collateral damage from [=HiME=] fights (which are themselves InvisibleToNormals), most of the events in and around the academy are [[BystanderSyndrome ignored by outsiders]] to the point that nobody cares when [[spoiler:it is taken over and the students are held hostage by an army brought in by a secret American organization]].

* Paradigm City in ''Anime/TheBigO''. [[spoiler:Justified by the end... [[GainaxEnding probably.]]]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': Townsville where the protagonists hang out, has all the giant monsters, supervillains, and other major troubles. The town of Citysville, right next door, is monster-free. There are occasional exceptions: the town of Farmsville was the site of an Alien Invasion.

* The farm in ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' is in the middle of Nowhere, a town in Kansas. This jump-starts some of the plots. The villain theorizes that nobody would easily notice [[AliensInCardiff if they kidnap some yokels in the middle of nowhere]]. However it is such a CrapsackWorld that whenever they travel, it turns out that there are plenty of villains and monsters everywhere. So it ends up being questionable how safer the yokels would be if they lived ''somewhere'' rather than Nowhere.

* ''Manga/ShimejiSimulation'': The Danchis (Japanese name for public housing) that Shimeji and Sis live in. They are located in the middle of nowhere right next to a wheat farm, and eerily enough, only ''four'' residents settle in there, including Shimeji, Sis, and the Chito and Yuuri {{Expies}}. It was later [[spoiler:vacated on Chapter 31, when Shijima left and with [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse Sis]] nowhere to be found.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': Townsville where the protagonists hang out, has all the giant monsters, supervillains, and other major troubles. The town of Citysville, right next door, is monster-free. There are occasional exceptions: the town of Farmsville [[note]]not, unfortunately, ''VideoGame/FarmVille''[[/note]] was the site of an Alien Invasion.

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* Fuka Academy in ''Anime/MaiHime'', despite being fairly close to a town, otherwise seems to be surrounded by nothing but GhibliHills. Apart from the need to come up with rational explanations for the collateral damage from [=HiME=] fights (which are themselves InvisibleToNormals), most of the events in and around the academy are [[BystanderSyndrome ignored by outsiders]] to the point that nobody cares when [[spoiler:it is taken over and the students are held hostage by an army brought in by a secret American organization]].

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* Fabletown in ''{{ComicBook/Fables}}'', through use of a magical WeirdnessCensor and other spells to keep people out and hidden, is a ''neighborhood in the middle of New York City''. In one issue they had to remove the WeirdnessCensor to cast a powerful spell to make it rain, relying temporarily on the ''rain itself'' to keep people out of their business. They recently had to leave because all of their spells failed at once: both causing their magically-enhanced buildings to fall down, and causing the citizens and officials of New York City to ''notice'' that said buildings fell down.

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* Subverted in ''{{Series/Eureka}}'', where the town is the home of a government sanctioned top-secret research facility, and so the town is kept low-key to avoid unwanted scrutiny.

* Recycled '''InSpace!''' on ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' when Mal tells Simon they're all alone in the black. Corner of ''No'' and ''Where''.

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* ''Film/{{Pleasantville}}'' features a literal version of this: the village's main street wraps right back to itself at each end.

'''Miss Peters:''' Mary-Sue, you should know the answer to that! The end of Main Street is [[VideoGameGeography just the beginning again!]]

[[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnmation/CourageTheCowardlyDog https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/courage_l03.png]]]]

* ''Series/ThePrisoner'': The Village. Be ''seeing'' you.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': Townsville where the protagonists hang out, has all the giant monsters, supervillains, and other major troubles. The town of Citysville, right next door, is monster-free. There are occasional exceptions: the town of Farmsville [[note]]not, unfortunately, FarmVille[[/note]] was the site of an Alien Invasion.

* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob:" Generictown is made of this -- although it all tends to gravitate around Bob's house, or rather, [[WeirdnessMagnet Bob himself.]]

* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob:" Generictown is made of this, although it all tends to gravitate around Bob's house, or rather, Bob himself.

* Stormalong Harbor in ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack''. It doesn't even seem to be anywhere near land, not counting the various islands that are within travel distance, and "How The West Was Fun" shows that travelling west just leads to an endless, empty ocean infested with seamonsters. The harbor doesn't even grow "out" it grows "up", with the richer you are the higher you live. The richest family in Stormalong have a massive manor with a ''lawn'' and Stromalong Harbor is supposed to be a rickety island made of wood planks and piles. Hell, Stormalong even have Suspiciously SpaciousSewer, despite having no foundation!

* ''Webcomic/TheWotch'': Tandy Gardens. The weirdness in Tandy Gardens has actually made the national news; but a lot of the goings-on happen in out-of-the-way places or at the high school, and, well, kids just have the ''darndest'' imaginations...

* Stormalong Harbor in ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack''. It doesn't even seem to be anywhere near land, not counting the various islands that are within travel distance, and "How The West Was Fun" shows that travelling west just leads to an endless, empty ocean infested with seamonsters. The harbor doesn't even grow "out" it grows "up", with the richer you are the higher you live. The richest family in Stormalong have a massive manor with a ''lawn'' and Stromalong Harbor is supposed to be a rickety island made of wood planks and piles. Hell, Stormalong even have SuspiciouslySpaciousSewer, despite having no foundation!