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In the six New England states, 100% of the land area is incorporated as a city or town. Even the most rural areas are within city or town boundaries. There's no such thing as "living in the county," as with the rest of the country. I think there is a small exception in Maine, however.
I had this discussion on another forum with someone in CT. She couldn't grasp the fact that I lived in my town but outside city limits. Another poster on the forum lives in Iowa and we were both trying to explain just how rural our areas can be. She just couldn't get it. LOL
I have no clue. From my research on Point Roberts, they have a grade school for kids, but by high school, they have to take a bus into Canada and back down into Washington, and go through customs, just to get to school. But I believe all their phone and electric service comes from Canada. I'm sure if you want to "go into town", or the city, you would always go into Vancouver. It doesn't look like they're much more than 30 min. from downtown. My guess is going through customs is fairly easy since there are so few residents. The customs people probably know them all by name.
If you had read the links I just posted in message #104 of this thread, you would have learned that ambulances have to transport Point Roberts emergency patients, past Vancouver to the Bellingham WA hospital, because U.S. health insurance plans don't pay for care in Canadian hospitals, even though Vancouver BC has several closer hospitals. The link I posted the Nat Geogr magazine article, also has a cool aerial photo of the Point Roberts area. It also has practically a zero crime rate, due to the heavy security.
Last edited by slowlane3; 02-18-2012 at 04:37 PM..
OK so Easter island is the most remote inhabited STAND-ALONE island in the world? I can buy that but it's really splitting hairs. The 1 million people who live in Hawaii are still far, far more removed from the next nearest land mass than the 6,000 on Easter Island.
Yeah, but Oklahoma is pretty flat.
I live in Minnesota. The state is pretty much flat, all over. But there are minor exceptions to the rule. But that still doesn't mean that for the most part, MN is flat, so is Oklahoma.
Yeah, but Oklahoma is pretty flat.
I live in Minnesota. The state is pretty much flat, all over. But there are minor exceptions to the rule. But that still doesn't mean that for the most part, MN is flat, so is Oklahoma.
Yes, I think it is safe to say that most of the Plains states are mostly flat. I just think people get fustrated when someone comes along and says blah blah blah, that these states are entirely flat. Correct me if I am wrong but I think every state has at least some hills; even like the Flint Hills of Kansas or north central Florida.
Isn't it incredible how people with no maps, no satellite data, no large ships with stockpiles of food, found a tiny island in the middle of hundreds of thousands of square miles of water with no other land? What an amazing feat for the primitive discoverers of that island.
They had help from ancient aliens.
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