Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8954026-20130511180305/@comment-4839682-20130512170417

OldBid wrote:

So how can it fit into a town? ;)  This is the stem of my dilemma . . . if EF is a world then how does it all fit into one smallish town? I know someone ?Regina? said that it's bigger than you think but it doesn't take over the USA or the world! If we go on the size of a town, then it could be concluded that it was just the Evil Queen's kingdom that was affected but then that doesn't explain the presence of lots of other Royal families!

In all likelyhood: magic. :D No, seriously. We know that Storybrooke was hidden from the world, it's entirely possible that it's any size. Besides, you can fit a lot more people than you might think into a fairly small area. If Storybrooke is even the size of a large rural county, you could fit hundreds of thousands into it. Consider the fact that there are eight million people living in New York City... a city that's not all that large. There's twenty thousand people in my city... and it's only 5 square miles.

The fact is, we really don't know how many people lived in the Enchanted Forest... we don't know how many of them were left behind, and we don't know the size of Storybrooke. The Curse concealed it, and it may still be concealed.

It's fun to ponder, though XD