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<blockquote data-quote="Rabulias" data-source="post: 8915538" data-attributes="member: 16651">While they don't reach Alexandria until the last half of season 5, according to the fan wiki, they enter Alexandria on day 537 of the zombie apocalypse (less than 2 years), so most of the time they are in the south, it has not had that long to become overgrown.In my head canon, it's another Alexandria, too, because I know it's a fairly dense area here. But in the show and the comic it is supposed to be the Alexandria just outside Washington, DC. The houses we see in the show could easily fit in some neighborhoods of the real Alexandria. Here is a Google street view of a pretty upscale neighborhood in Alexandria:[ATTACH=full]273764[/ATTACH]You are right that there are deer around here, despite it being such a dense urban environment (more than people would think). With most people dead, gone, or undead, the deer population would grow, but that would take time. But predator populations would rebound as well. There are foxes, coyotes, and bears in Fairfax County next door, and feral dog packs might also spring up in the fall of civilization, so that might temper the deer population, but you are right that there should probably be a lot around. But if the deer population grows, that might help keep down the height of grass, no?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rabulias, post: 8915538, member: 16651"] While they don't reach Alexandria until the last half of season 5, according to the fan wiki, they enter Alexandria on day 537 of the zombie apocalypse (less than 2 years), so most of the time they are in the south, it has not had that long to become overgrown. In my head canon, it's another Alexandria, too, because I know it's a fairly dense area here. But in the show and the comic it is supposed to be [I]the[/I] Alexandria just outside Washington, DC. The houses we see in the show could easily fit in some neighborhoods of the real Alexandria. Here is a Google street view of a pretty upscale neighborhood in Alexandria: [ATTACH type="full" width="574px"]273764[/ATTACH] You are right that there are deer around here, despite it being such a dense urban environment (more than people would think). With most people dead, gone, or undead, the deer population would grow, but that would take time. But predator populations would rebound as well. There are foxes, coyotes, and bears in Fairfax County next door, and feral dog packs might also spring up in the fall of civilization, so that might temper the deer population, but you are right that there should probably be a lot around. But if the deer population grows, that might help keep down the height of grass, no? [/QUOTE]

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