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Do You Know Where You Live?
An anonymous submitter writes "Thanks to GPS, it seems quite a few people are discovering they don't live where they thought. Prior to GPS, state, county and city borders were part law, part measurement, and part guesswork. Now, they're able to go back and discover where actual borders should be, and it's making many people unhappy. Some familes in Rhode Island are finding out they may actually live in Connecticut. Each state, county and city wants as much land as possible, because it means more tax income. The people caught in the middle simply want to know where they'll send their kids for school."
NOOOOOOOoooooooo...
I'm Canadian!
With my dying breath, I curse Zoidberg!
Glad to find out I *DON'T* live in San Francisco after all, couldn't take another one of those summers
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts."
Wherever you go, there you are!
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maybe that can solve the India-Pakistan problem....
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
I'm always in the State of Confusion.
In writing the manual for some civil engineering software back in the 80s, I found that there are some very oddly laid-out survey markers out there, especially in the plains states. The client explained that most of these were laid in the mid-19th century, which was the peak period of American alcohol consumption.
rj
Just make a 51st state that includes Everyone Living on the Thick Black Lines of the US Map. Think of all the interstate commerce with all the states they'd border! Oh, but wait, what about the people living on the border between the new Border State and the other states? Let's create another...ouch. **Brain implosion**
First off, c'mon RI is so small anyways, just let them have a little more land. You know that little chunk that Massachusetts has along the top of CT, I think CT is still pissed off about that and taking it out on RI.
The other amusing thing is this quote: "It bothers me giving up my low-number license plate with my initials on it." It's kind of a hobby, maybe even an obsession, of some people in RI to try and get a low number (or as they say in RI "low numba") license plate, for example if you had w-12, you would be all the envy in the state. License plates are typically two letters and three numbers in RI.
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Because it insults Americans in a thread started to insult Canadians....nevermind...
I can't believe these "surveyors" are that bad. I mean it's not as if the states aren't all different colors! I live in central PA so it's all green. New Jersey, as we all know, is orange! Perhaps we should get some non-color blind folks out there to define the borders!
Hint: Black line=new state!
So close and yet so far from the world's perfect ID number
I believe that Sprint's (and other manufacturers') new third-generation phones come out soon - many of them are bundled with GPS capability.
Sweet. So will I be able to call up my daughters mobile and get an accurate answer to "Where did you spend the night?"
Call forwarding. You'll accurately know where her phone spent the night....
I've never been to Four Corners, but I've been in 4 states at once....denial, disarray, confusion, and panic.
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Calvin: [Daydreaming]
Mrs. Wormwood: Calvin! What state do you live in?
Calvin: Denial!
Mrs. Wormwood: I guess I can't argue about that...
-mz