Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25176701-20141115151337/@comment-25869525-20150107022336

Although General Electric was founded in Schenectady, GE's corproate headquarters are located in Fairfield CT. However, for a "City of Lights", I'd pick a place that has a power plant, for obvious reasons. I'm not sure if either of those cities has a power plant nearby.

Of course, by the time of the great war "97 years ago" in the universe of the show, a power plant could have been built almost anyplace. But, writers of PA Sci FI, do tend to assume a stasis of things: Buildings that exist now still remain, even if heavily damaged. Residential neighborhoods that exist "now" tend to remain residential "then". So, wherever power plants exist now, in real world 2015, those would be the likely locations for the power plant that keeps the lights on in the City of Lights to be found.

So, I've narrowed it down to currently existing power plant sites along the east coast. Yeah, big help, I know.

I need to ask, why are people so sure it's in NY? Did I miss something on the show that indicated that's where it might be? As we already know, the people shown on the show so far (Sky People, Grounders, etc.) are all located not too far from DC. Why couldn't the City of Lights be south of there, perhaps in the Carolinas or Georgia? I'm just tossing a thought out there. Make of it what you will.