We've started creating a metric for how civilized a place is. Various things add or substract points. Here's the list. We've seen everything on it except the Thai restaurant so far.

Civilization:

• Martial Arts Dojo +3 points
  
• Sushi Place +3 points, only worth 2 points if it's inside an old Pizza Hut building, with all the red triangular decor and wierd curtains intact.
  
• Cellphone coverage +1 points
  
• Thai food: +4 points
  
• Waitstaff with non-ear piercing +1
  
• Mural of cherry blossom festival +1
  
• Vegetarian fake-meat in supermarket: +4
  
• Bicyclist +1
  
• Airport +1, -1 if there's a row of trailers next to it, -2 if it's unpaved
  
• Touchy-feely meditation seminars: +1
  
• Community College +1
  
• University : +2
  
• Lovely ukrainian catholic church: +2
  
• Sikh Temple +2
  
• "Wireless High Speed Internet All Rooms" signs at hotels: +3
  
• Health food store: +2
  
• Greek food: +1

• Gun show -3
  
• Trailer Park -3
  
• Rustym abandoned truck trailied dragged to the side of the road and painted as a billboard -3
  
• Rusty abandoned car with broken axle on side of road -1
  
• Junk Yard -1, -3 if it calls itself an "antique machines display" and charges admission
  
• Restaurants named after furniture -2
  
• Store named "the store" - 2
  
• Public building with obviously Christian decor (crucifix in lobby) : -2
  
• Fenceposts "decorated" with boots or buckets: -3 per group
  
• Bar to completely close off highway in winter : -2
  
• Cattle guard on bridges: -1
  
• Unincorporated town -1 , -3 if it's an unincorporated town named "Progress". (not making this up)
  
• Livestock; Cows and sheep -1, Bison -2
  
• Scary rusty propane tank, cracked bu apparently in use -1
  
• Anti-abortion billboard with scary cartoon fetus whose head is shaped like a butternut squash: -1, -3 for more than one identical billboard in a row
  
• Restaurant claiming to serve genuine American food: -.5
  
• Homebuilt bridge that appears to be braced with car parts: -2
  
• "Country Western Dance Hall" with sheep grazing in it: -2
  
• Rusty piece of sheet metal painted to look like a moose: -1
  
• Stacks of metal drums labeled "gasoline" in red spray paint: -2
  
• Chainsaw carving: -2
  
• Calling yourself "Chainsaw carving capital of the world": -4
  
• Painfully tacky cemetary full of shiny pick marble headstones: -2
  
• Selling two distinct, bizarre things out of the same store, like furniture and livestyock feed, or auto glass and pellet stoves: -4
  
• ATVs: -2, -3 if all the riders are wearing hip waders
  
• Visibly crooked house, -1
  
• Using tarp or corrugated metal as a building/siding material: -1
  
• Road sign on stick in bucket with rocks: -3, also for road sign held in place by wood and cinder blocks
  
• Anything named after someone named "Tubby": -1

• Llamas
  
• Moose crossing signs
  
• Cool self-bracing drilling equipment
  
• Moose MacGillicuddy's Bar
  
• Butte
  
• Curling Club