> The toxicity/chaos of the place is probably the main thing that enables it to continue to be a village How so, are you thinking? After reading OP, my guess

> The toxicity/chaos of the place is probably the main thing that enables it to continue to be a village How so, are you thinking? After reading OP, my guess is that maybe you're suggesting it's the way the toxicity/chaos keeps too many people from joining, that helps keep it a village? Helps keep it smaller, or less rate of newcomers, since so many find it distasteful? But maybe you mean something else? What are you thinking about how the toxicity/chaos might be the main thing that enables it to continue as a village? How might it do that?