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Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here
Gee, it sure is boring around here.
"We live on the most boring street in the United States of America, where nothing even remotely dangerous will ever happen—period."
—Buzz, Home Alone

Where is the most dangerous place on the planet to live? Not the city where something exciting is always happening. Not Mordor. Not a Haunted Headquarters. Not the crime-ridden big city. Not even Tokyo. The most dangerous place to live is the small, quiet, unknown town where "nothing exciting ever happens."

New serial killer on the loose? Bodies are piling up in a small town where nothing like this has ever happened before. Portal to a Magical Land opening? It's in the big house in the country where you were preparing to spend the most boring summer of your life. Aliens landing? Their UFOs are parked in the middle of a deserted cornfield in a rural town where cattle outnumber people. Emo Teen moving with their divorced mother out of the Big Applesauce into the sleepy suburbs? They'll be hiding Batman In My Basement or starting a mission to Save Both Worlds by the end of the first episode.

How can I turn my own boring, mundane neighborhood into a Weirdness Magnet, you ask? Just say the magic words "Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here," and let Tempting Fate do its work. Be careful what you wish for (after all, you don't know what genre you're in) and don't say we didn't warn you!

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