So, about this Pokemon GO thing...
 

Whose got it, and had any stories?

The village I'm in has 1 Pokemon Gym and 3 Pokestops, all reachable from my house. As the oldest I've established pack rules- The Gym is in constant rotation between everyone, and we're all trying to complete our pokedex.

The ice cream shop even has a poster in the window.

There's not a lot within distance of me aside from churches, but the University I work at/attend has a ton. My current crowning jewel is Scyther, but its really hard to get candies to power him up.

At the moment I am trying to get Golbat since Zubats are crazy standard. I also snatch Venonats when possible because I like Venomoth.

It came out in the UK two days ago and I downloaded it yesterday out of mild curiosity.

I live in a village out on the edge of where the housing becomes "semi-rural". Mostly old retired folks around here. One of the local pubs seems to be a Pokestop. But it's a Weedle Wasteland, otherwise. 100% Weedle. If there's anyone else around here that plays it they probably have a full team of Charizard and 5 Beedrills by now.

Encounters get a bit better as level goes up, I've found, although that'll be hard without pokestops readily available.

Weedles are actually great for leveling up, because they only take 12 to evolve. If you build up a bunch of Weedle candies, then crack a lucky egg and start evolving them all, you'll be getting 1000 experience per 12 Weedle candies, and you can evolve like 60 this way, before your lucky egg runs out.

This happened yesturday at work. I was working the register and a co-worker was whispering to get my attention. So listen in, THERE'S A BULBASAUR RIGHT HERE!

I make sure no customers are managers are near-by. Open it up and, yup. Thats a bulbasaur. She said she thinks we summoned it because literally right before it showed up we were geeking out over our mutual love of pokemon number 1.

As for pokestops. The one thats on my usual walking route gets horrible GPS signal so it just keeps bouncing me around that. Due to this and a pigeot I wasted way too many pokeballs on I'm almost out. Contrast this to my friend who has a pokestop within range of her work desk. So she just has her phone open and every five minutes gets more free stuff.

I don't play Pokemon Go.

BUT, before you shoo me out of this thread, I wanted to comment that over around my city of Vancouver, saw on the Skytrain news that someone has established a chauffeuring service dedicated to driving people around the city for the specific purpose of catching pokemon, at an hourly rate.

Pokemon Go, the new frontier for employment and global economy! =P
So yeah, it's a big thing around here in the west coast of Canada.

wait a second, people walking around catching pokemon. Those that don't catch pokemon offering services that cater to people that do catch pokemon. This is sounding an awful lot like the game

Yeah, I saw some businesses that are offering "Pokemon specials", such as one place that said that if someone catches a pokemon in their resteraunt, they got a choice of a free bottle of water, juice, or lemonade. Soda was 50 cents though, because taxes, and wanting to steer people to better choices.