It doesn't work though because Scranton isn't actually a generic american city full of chain stores. It's an old city that peaked 100 years ago, so it was built in a chain-unfriendly way (corporate chains HATE anything that isn't a uniform farm field they can just plop down on) and was a declining market when chains started getting big.
Somewhere like Des Moines or going the route like Parks and Rec being in an unamed city in Indiana would have been a better "generic american city" choice. Even then, there's really no such thing as a "generic American city". They all have local flavor of some sort.
It doesn't work though because Scranton isn't actually a generic american city full of chain stores. It's an old city that peaked 100 years ago, so it was built in a chain-unfriendly way (corporate chains HATE anything that isn't a uniform farm field they can just plop down on) and was a declining market when chains started getting big.
Somewhere like Des Moines or going the route like Parks and Rec being in an unamed city in Indiana would have been a better "generic american city" choice. Even then, there's really no such thing as a "generic American city". They all have local flavor of some sort.
:doubt: