>>44851227The game universe isn't as small as depicted in game, massive retard. Towns aren't literally just four houses.
The only reason for that was technical limitations, it was an abstraction that you filled in the blanks with your imagination.
Origins initially expended the game cities to make them credible (Pallet Town, early Viridian, Pewter) but they got lazy as time passed and eventually just copypasted the game in the last episodes.