>>47396555>Anyone who has been outside will know that cities don't usually have 4 buildings.That's an abstraction. Cities in the Pokemon world do not literally only have four buildings, they're the same size as real world cities. This is shown when these cities are adapted into other mediums like the anime. Pallet Town doesn't literally only have two houses and the lab, it
Everything else in your post is correct, but the game's depiction of the Pokemon world has always been scaled down. Tajiri also explains this as the games only showing things from a child's point of view.
https://runescape.fandom.com/wiki/Scale_theory 