How to Start Your Own Town

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  • @victorschlecht1069
    @victorschlecht10692 жыл бұрын

    POV: You actually wanted to learn how to start your own country. Learning how to start your own town is 'Half as Interesting'

  • @martonbalazskajari5424

    @martonbalazskajari5424

    Жыл бұрын

    lol!!!

  • @benjaminhaughton5408

    @benjaminhaughton5408

    Жыл бұрын

    comedy town, population you.

  • @builderboyny

    @builderboyny

    Жыл бұрын

    Wth… i searched up “Creating A Country” to learn how to make a country but found this……

  • @lowenjennings

    @lowenjennings

    Жыл бұрын

    lol got em

  • @internet_userr

    @internet_userr

    Жыл бұрын

    POV: you don't have any patents Edit: fixed patents to parents

  • @OceanAce
    @OceanAce2 жыл бұрын

    Actual advantages: -You can be a mayor or part of the city council -You can issue municipal bonds to finance any ambitious projects that you want the town to be known for. Or to bring fiber internet into your wooded cabin. -You can override deed restrictions so that Karen the HOA manager isn't waking you up at 7am to remind you to cut your lawn. Just make sure she doesn't become part of the city council or else... -You can partner with metro service companies to bring their park and rides into your town so that you don't have to drive 45 minutes to get to the park and ride.

  • @LucaBlaLP

    @LucaBlaLP

    2 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately, this all would cost so much money that it can only be done by rich people, who are only rich because they exploit their workers (unless you want to severely tax your citizens or the county / state / whatever provides you with an enormous amount of funding, which won't happen). In Bezosville, you can probably have all that, but only if its citizens work 16h shifts in Amazon's warehouses without break.

  • @johnladuke6475

    @johnladuke6475

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@LucaBlaLP OP had a good solution, issuing municipal bonds to raise the cash. The trick is, either the terms on your bonds have to be so terrible that nobody would want to buy them, or they would default fairly regularly because you're not mega-rich. But assuming that you're good at selling worthless bonds to stupid people, you can fund just about anything the town wants.

  • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

    @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

    2 жыл бұрын

    Right, but more importantly, you can name it something funny.

  • @JPurvis10

    @JPurvis10

    2 жыл бұрын

    That Karen part sounded a bit personal

  • @syrialak101

    @syrialak101

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@johnladuke6475 So... scamming people?

  • @chirhoiota885
    @chirhoiota8852 жыл бұрын

    Yep, that intro was terrifyingly spot-on. I have about 30 minutes that I can possibly procrastinate showering so I can bartend a big military memorial this morning. I am not a fan of memorials and I'm fairly proud that my job is to just inebriate the heck out of everyone. Pardon me while I binge as much Half As Interesting as I can for the next... 25 minutes.

  • @thelukesternater

    @thelukesternater

    2 жыл бұрын

    He scary…

  • @local-admin

    @local-admin

    2 жыл бұрын

    Liked in the first 12 Seconds

  • @Remls

    @Remls

    2 жыл бұрын

    I am currently getting ready to go to work. Not even watching, just listening, because the alternative is having to think about all the meetings and other shit I gotta do today.

  • @HiDDENk00l

    @HiDDENk00l

    2 жыл бұрын

    Take your shower, man. Set an alarm for 3 minutes and do it as fast as you can. Then you'd have ~20-21 minutes to watch more HAI. Of course, this comment is pretty redundant because time has passed. But it's not really for you, it's for the people reading this who can relate with your comment. That's right, YOU.

  • @snaiper195

    @snaiper195

    2 жыл бұрын

    I lotteraly was wating my lunch alone in my room

  • @mihailoaleksic3330
    @mihailoaleksic33302 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: Here in Serbia, there is a city with population of 180 and a village with population of 8.000. Weird, but completely fine.

  • @janmelantu7490

    @janmelantu7490

    2 жыл бұрын

    There’s a *city* in Texas called “Jersey Village”

  • @User31129

    @User31129

    2 жыл бұрын

    Near where I live is The City of Orchard Lake Village, Michigan.

  • @jacobarmour6325

    @jacobarmour6325

    2 жыл бұрын

    Similarly in the uk there is a city with less than 3000 people (st Davids) and a town with 218,000 people (Reading)

  • @shinsenshogun900

    @shinsenshogun900

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@janmelantu7490 Jerseyville, TX would sound like as basic as Brownsville

  • @Carewolf

    @Carewolf

    2 жыл бұрын

    While in the US, Serbia is a city.

  • @verdatum
    @verdatum2 жыл бұрын

    I'm too lazy to verify, but I was told that my university incorporated as a town so that, among other reasons, it allowed them to repaint the parking space lines to be thinner so they could pack more cars in there. I don't particularly doubt this, because, as a commuter student, I was required to spend hundreds of dollars per semester for a permit. And as a freshman, the best/only parking lot that freshman were allowed to get a permit for was over a mile from any classroom.

  • @metroidnerd9001

    @metroidnerd9001

    2 жыл бұрын

    The city my university is in has a law that no building can be higher than the original university hall. To get around this for our stadium, they had to dig it into the ground.

  • @acorgiwithacrown467

    @acorgiwithacrown467

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sound like your university was scamming you

  • @gamermapper

    @gamermapper

    2 жыл бұрын

    Imagine spending money on this and not on good public transport.

  • @alsatusmd1A13

    @alsatusmd1A13

    2 жыл бұрын

    Universities in the US and Canada rarely incorporate as towns because: A. They’re already on incorporated land even if they legally could. B. It’s probably a legal gray area if the proposed “town” is regularly unoccupied for the better part of four months.

  • @bigbadbyte

    @bigbadbyte

    2 жыл бұрын

    I have no legal training. I am not in any way in expert. But I am 100% sure this is correct and will fight anyone who disagrees

  • @lbart37
    @lbart372 жыл бұрын

    Just to be clear: Disney *can* have their own law enforcement through the Reedy Creek Improvement District, but doesn't - they use the Orange & Osceola County Sheriff's offices instead. Disney Security are security guards, no more powerful than mall security guards. See also the videos that Rob over at Midway to Main Street has done on the subject.

  • @maximutatro3176

    @maximutatro3176

    2 жыл бұрын

    Absolute cowards, capitalism has failed. I want disney death squads

  • @vladimirenlow4388

    @vladimirenlow4388

    2 жыл бұрын

    I imagine this places an undue burden on these law enforcement bodies that Disney doesn't compensate them for... and that they've made it known that this a problem, but it never gets fixed for $ome rea$on.

  • @jaredf6205

    @jaredf6205

    2 жыл бұрын

    I would imagine they use all three, security, town police, and county sheriffs depending on where or what is going on.

  • @katiekane5247

    @katiekane5247

    2 жыл бұрын

    Walmart uses our Sheriffs dept as it's security, creates jobs with such low pay, they HELP employees get Food Stamps. Corporate America at 'work'.

  • @wheeledgoat

    @wheeledgoat

    2 жыл бұрын

    I read that Disney directly employs a number of officers - I want to say 50?

  • @kurtlindner
    @kurtlindner2 жыл бұрын

    00:43 Nobody expected Pileofclothesburg to rise to such power being so small, and landlocked; but its people were smart and cunning. The whole story began when Thomas Houseshoeman discovered a large rock salt deposit near the West end of the hallway -back then Pileofclothesburg was unincorporated and people just called it a hallway. Due to current mining techniques and resources, Thomas had no way of extracting the salt himself, so he devised a plan. The mining of rock salt was most effectively done with water in that region then, they'd pour in water and insert sticks, the brine evaporated and they'd collect the salt off the walls and from the sticks. The problem was that Pileofclothesburg simply didn't have any natural access to it's own water source. Thomas began talking with Juana Robenstein about his predicament. Juana owned the Easternmost property in the unincorporated Hallway, which included a small extension of land North, covering half of Bathroomshire entrance. Thomas and Juana became business partners and negotiated an exchange of that land with the Bathroomshire council for water rights from the Sink River. The Sink was near the rock salt deposit and they built an aqueduct to bring them their needed water. The salt from the end of the Hallway was very high quality rock salt, near pure sodium chloride, and with their extraction method it formed large flakes which were highly desirable for cooking and canning. Over time Thomas and Juana Married, and grew their business into the United Pile of Clothes Saltworks, eventually abbreviated to the PoC Saltworks for marketing purposes. The demand for their salt grew beyond their local House and soon the PoC Saltworks had dominance over all other salt production in the entire neighborhood. After Thomas passed away in 2014 Juana threw herself into the philanthropy she and Thomas had taken up in their later years. She wanted to put the salt back into the town she'd built her salty life on. Juana Started The Sel school for Salty Children and the now famous food chain Fleur de Sole; the business supports the school, and the school supports the community. Juana died 3 years later in 2017 and it was then that the now wealthy residents decided to honor their little hamlet's benefactors by renaming the now incorporated town of Hallway to Pileofclothesburg, after their company which brought so much to the people.

  • @edibleminecraftcode1017

    @edibleminecraftcode1017

    2 жыл бұрын

    this was too well written for what it was based off of. i got so attached to these characters and so into the writing. keep it up :)

  • @GusThePrankster

    @GusThePrankster

    2 жыл бұрын

    Underrated comment

  • @mangle9143

    @mangle9143

    2 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful

  • @adityaruplaha

    @adityaruplaha

    2 жыл бұрын

    Amazing

  • @GusThePrankster

    @GusThePrankster

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm waiting for the sequel now

  • @danielbishop1863
    @danielbishop18632 жыл бұрын

    Related fact: The US currently has two unincorporated "cities" with populations over 200,000: Paradise, NV (where most "Las Vegas" hotels/casinos are located to avoid paying city taxes) and Arlington, VA (across the Potomac from Washington, DC).

  • @JL-sm6cg

    @JL-sm6cg

    2 жыл бұрын

    Las Vegas has a lot of unrecognized suburbs. I used to live in Whitney, then moved to Sunrise Manor, but it was still Las Vegas, just like Paradise, Winchester, Spring Valley, and Summerlin are. (OH, there was also one small 2 square mile place in the NW part of the city called The Lakes, which was where Citi took credit card payments, and was the only place in Nevada that didn't have a zip code starting with 89.)

  • @JL-sm6cg

    @JL-sm6cg

    2 жыл бұрын

    Also, in the DC area, there's Silver Spring, MD, which at least at one point was the largest unincorporated cities in the US.

  • @datpanda6435

    @datpanda6435

    2 жыл бұрын

    Virginia has a ton of unincorporated communities, even in urban areas like NOVA, so this doesn't surprise me

  • @User31129

    @User31129

    2 жыл бұрын

    Clinton Township, Michigan (NE Detroit) has 100,000 people and is the 8th most populated community in Michigan. It's unincorporated.

  • @danielbishop1863

    @danielbishop1863

    2 жыл бұрын

    And Texas has The Woodlands, a kinda-suburb of Houston with a population of 114,436 (2020 Census), that recently voted not to incorporate.

  • @cemreomerayna463
    @cemreomerayna4632 жыл бұрын

    0:50 it is an Ukrainina dictionary and the finger is on the word табір, the word for camp. It is a common word in Eastern European languages (usually found as tabor/табор) and comes from a Turkic word "tabur", meaning fortificated military camps (made by encircling carts around the camp). Edit: Tabur exists in Modern Turkish, but the meaning has shifted to battalion. The word has spread to Eastern Europe (and actually entered to Modern Turkish) through Hungarian, but the ultimate source of the word is disputed (it is either from Chagatai or Crimean Tatar).

  • @jacorp7476

    @jacorp7476

    2 жыл бұрын

    Interesting!

  • @AussieCoasterReviewer

    @AussieCoasterReviewer

    2 жыл бұрын

    Half as interesting!

  • @plagah

    @plagah

    2 жыл бұрын

    cool, in hungarian camp is tábor

  • @Medino9846

    @Medino9846

    11 ай бұрын

    şimde türkiyede köy/kasaba yapabiliyormuyuz anlamadım

  • @lukko6714
    @lukko67142 жыл бұрын

    I've made several languages and maps but I never thought of making a town. Heck, I wasted my time learning languages that I'll never really use (like Icelandic), but making a town is a whole different level of doing something for no reason. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to make a town. The only problem is making a city because I'll need an army of 5000 people. Yes, the definition of a city where I live is a settlement with more that 5000 people.

  • @prim16

    @prim16

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me and a few of my old tamagotchi pets can come, so, that's already a few hundred

  • @qwertyuiopzxcfgh

    @qwertyuiopzxcfgh

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's actually a decent definition (even though 5000 people isn't that many). Over here, there isn't an official definition of a city anymore, but the historical definition is "does it have city rights?", which haven't been handed out since the 19th century. This creates some weird situations though. We have a city with 30 inhabitants and a village with 500,000 inhabitants.

  • @mihailoaleksic3330

    @mihailoaleksic3330

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@qwertyuiopzxcfgh OMG last sentence...

  • @NathanielHall

    @NathanielHall

    2 жыл бұрын

    I CAN GET YOU PEOPLE

  • @DangNguyen-xx3zi

    @DangNguyen-xx3zi

    2 жыл бұрын

    In my country, there's a list of hard criteria for a place to be considered a city. Other than some other bureaucratic numbers, the most important criteria are a) population of more than 150,000 and b) total developed area of more than 150 km2. Some towns managed to game the criteria and got themselves certified as a city, even though if you walk down the street of one, it looks just about like any random small town

  • @Belboz99
    @Belboz992 жыл бұрын

    You should'dve also crossed out Wisconsin off your list of places to start a town. In Wisconsin, towns are what are in most states called townships. Thus, in Wisconsin... you can't create a town because the state already has created all the towns. You can only create a village or city.

  • @brandonthewise4909

    @brandonthewise4909

    2 жыл бұрын

    You could start a village, though, which is just as good.

  • @bobby_greene

    @bobby_greene

    2 жыл бұрын

    But we have unincorporated communities that are defined as census designated places to make up for it

  • @greggcollins4215

    @greggcollins4215

    2 жыл бұрын

    In Kansas there are no "towns". Incorporated communities are all "Cities" regardless of size or population.

  • @wiscopolo44

    @wiscopolo44

    2 жыл бұрын

    I believe Wisconsin has the superior system over subdividing. It’s much easier to have all territory organized to begin with.

  • @owenater0780

    @owenater0780

    2 жыл бұрын

    hello fellow cheesehead!

  • @RichTiger7
    @RichTiger72 жыл бұрын

    In Texas, a guy named Carl opened a gas station/convenience store in a rural spot along I-35 and named it Carl's Corner. Then he applied for it to become a town, which he got. So now he gets free advertising from the State of Texas, in the form of those little green signs telling drivers how far it is to the next 3 towns.

  • @darkwoodmovies

    @darkwoodmovies

    5 ай бұрын

    That's actually brilliant! Haha hope his business is doign well.

  • @Homer-OJ-Simpson
    @Homer-OJ-Simpson2 жыл бұрын

    3:59 the town that attempted to only sell homes to Christian is Bay View, MI. It’s in the very northern part of the lower peninsula and it’s a true story.

  • @MartyFox

    @MartyFox

    2 жыл бұрын

    Bay View is not, in fact, a town. It’s an unincorporated census-designated place. What it does have, though, is a somewhat over-aggressive HOA: all houses in the community are owned by a private Methodist association, which requires you to be a member to live there.

  • @TKOfromJohn

    @TKOfromJohn

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MartyFox how Christian of them

  • @johnladuke6475

    @johnladuke6475

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TKOfromJohn Well, you know the saying from the Bible... "Love thy neighbours as long as they make donations to the same Invisible Friend Club as you."

  • @alexgomez2731

    @alexgomez2731

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TKOfromJohn Unironically yeah that is very Christian of them. The Bible quite clearly says to not be unequally yoked

  • @sora825

    @sora825

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@alexgomez2731 I've always heard that line explained to mean "Christians should only marry other Christians". As in "carry the spiritual burden equally" or something like that.

  • @ZontarDow
    @ZontarDow2 жыл бұрын

    In Canada the process is undefined because what constitutes a town is up to the provincial government. They can create, divide, merge and separate towns at their leisure as all the responsibility of towns and any other level of government below the province exists entirely to operate on what powers the provincial government differs onto them. This is why in 2002 the cities on the Island of Montreal where merged into the City of Montreal without consultation, and in 2006 some of those cities where allowed to become independent again but all where under a new Island of Montreal Regional government made up of the mayors of each city and borough with the mayor of Montreal being the First Amongst Equals.

  • @johnladuke6475

    @johnladuke6475

    2 жыл бұрын

    It hurts my brain. You want "were" not "where" for every use there. But I do also have something relevant to municipal-provincial relations to point out. This kind of situation is most common these days - similar municipal amalgamation stories exist for both Toronto and Hamilton in Ontario. I've even seen the small town of Wiarton, ON swallow up several rural townships along with smaller villages and hamlets to become The Town of South Bruce Peninsula. However a growing flyspeck on the map that finds itself with a concentrated population of 2,000 people can reach out to the province and ask to be recognized as a municipality... and just like that, a small town is born.

  • @ZontarDow

    @ZontarDow

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@johnladuke6475 The amalgamations in Quebec in the early 00s and devolution in the late 00s that saw regional governments replace the previous larger cities stemmed from long standing issues of the splitting of costs for joint services.

  • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

    @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

    2 жыл бұрын

    A fun side effect of this is that, since multiple townships can be merged into one municipality, you end up with places like the United Townships of Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Eyre and Clyde, Ontario.

  • @NoGoodHandlesLeft

    @NoGoodHandlesLeft

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yup, New Brunswick is reorganizing a lot of its municipalities this year.

  • @adiuntesserande6893

    @adiuntesserande6893

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's things like this that lead to the truly odd municipality of Election District 2, British Columbia. (It's a part of the Greater Vancouver conglomerate, which is quite, but not entirely, similar to Montreal in this aspect.)

  • @ronanmurphy98
    @ronanmurphy982 жыл бұрын

    0:04 You hit home a bit too hard there Sam. I almost choked on my quesadilla.

  • @juanrivera6207

    @juanrivera6207

    2 жыл бұрын

    I felt personally attacked

  • @ihavetowait90daystochangem67
    @ihavetowait90daystochangem672 жыл бұрын

    Luckily I already know how to make a town thanks to Doofemsmirtz’s “doofania” episode

  • @Insert_Name-bo4cd

    @Insert_Name-bo4cd

    2 жыл бұрын

    In the bay off the coast of the Tri-State Area Floats a country for me, and me! It's new! It's bright! And it's founded on spite! And it's everything I dreamed it would be, Hail, hail Doofania! There's a bright, shiny place With a flag that bears my face And it's floating on an inner tube Far away from city life, my stupid brother and ex-wife! And it's got an evil attitude, Hail, hail Doofania!

  • @LaneCorbett

    @LaneCorbett

    2 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately Doofania never made it to international waters

  • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

    @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

    2 жыл бұрын

    Phineas and Ferb teaches us the most important life lessons. If I ever want to build a rocket, fight a mummy, or climb up the Eiffel Tower, I know exactly what to do.

  • @eldonerc2524

    @eldonerc2524

    2 жыл бұрын

    Here I'm sitting in my doofemsmirts evil incorporated T-shirt. LoL. Always hear in my head something stupid after the jingle. Like " now with more gluten" .

  • @benwolff2772
    @benwolff27722 жыл бұрын

    As a guy from Ohio, I can confirm that we don’t have towns, just different levels of purgatory.

  • @EnergeticSpark63

    @EnergeticSpark63

    11 ай бұрын

    hey

  • @twasinjunaed6709

    @twasinjunaed6709

    6 ай бұрын

    I live in Ohio. Can confirm.

  • @kindandrespectfulcommenter3292
    @kindandrespectfulcommenter32922 жыл бұрын

    Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.

  • @kitma9

    @kitma9

    2 жыл бұрын

    so your username is correct

  • @RemotHuman

    @RemotHuman

    2 жыл бұрын

    He doesn't write his own videos

  • @drinkspartypack

    @drinkspartypack

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@RemotHuman really?

  • @RemotHuman

    @RemotHuman

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@drinkspartypack I don't think he tries to hide it, a lot of the jokes are aboh that, but I'm also pretty sure I heard him discussing that on his nebula podcast at least a year ago, unless that was someone else.

  • @DangNguyen-xx3zi

    @DangNguyen-xx3zi

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@RemotHuman do you think ONE guy can write, narrate and edit for both Wendover and HAI while publishing Nebula documentaries at the same time?

  • @kubev
    @kubev2 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to have the opportunity to start my own town. I realize there's a very good chance it'd turn out to be a complete disaster, but I'd like to experiment with zoning to create a town in which you could legitimately walk just about anywhere you needed or wanted to go, as well as to ensure that everyone had free access to the basics on some level.

  • @Gabrong

    @Gabrong

    2 жыл бұрын

    You know, like.. in Europe

  • @kubev

    @kubev

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Gabrong You still need to use trains and whatnot to get places. I'd like to be able to not step foot in a vehicle at all in most cases.

  • @sugoruyo

    @sugoruyo

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kubev Most European towns and cities are compact enough that you can get all those things by walking for about half an hour. We use trains and whatnot to travel between cities themselves and between the denser city centre and the outer suburban areas (which are still walkable in most cases). In some countries like the Netherlands you could cycle between cities, if you're so inclined, they provide sheltered cycleways that run parallel to, but at some distance, to their highways. Especially if we're talking towns, I've live in a 200.000 pop. one in England that I could walk from the edge to the centre in about 45 minutes but could access all amenities within 15' walk and it was not an exceptional one either. In fact, people seemed to feel it was too car-centric.

  • @WolfSeril107

    @WolfSeril107

    2 жыл бұрын

    I watched this for exactly the same reason. We have enough people just on urbanist youtube to start a major city or several smaller ones.

  • @kubev

    @kubev

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@WolfSeril107 I think it'd be interesting to get together and brainstorm that sort of thing. Not to actually do it, mind you, but just to see what everyone's ultimate goal would be and how they'd go about it. I feel as though getting a bunch of "like-minded" and good-intentioned people together like that without some sort of experience would just result in all of us killing each other. XD

  • @voxpopuli8957
    @voxpopuli89572 жыл бұрын

    What’s ironic is even though, on paper, Florida is one of the easiest states to incorporate a municipality in, it ends up being one of the most difficult just because of ✨politics✨

  • @walterusalbus

    @walterusalbus

    Жыл бұрын

    But why

  • @voxpopuli8957

    @voxpopuli8957

    Жыл бұрын

    @@walterusalbus People love to argue that incorporation will make taxes go crazy, even though Florida cities both automatically (with some conditions) receive funding from the state and have pretty heavy restrictions on how much they can tax independently even if a municipality does charge it’s own taxes. That’s literally the only decent argument against it and it’s only *sort of* a sensical argument at that.

  • @adastra553
    @adastra5532 жыл бұрын

    I can’t believe you mentioned the very real Worcestershire town of Upton Snodsbury without mentioning some of its other neighbours, like White Ladies Aston, Throckmorton, and Peopleton

  • @vila777_

    @vila777_

    11 ай бұрын

    throckmorton is real??? i thought it was just a tumblr joke

  • @TheOriginalJphyper
    @TheOriginalJphyper2 жыл бұрын

    There are many, many "towns" in the US already that are not incorporated; they are de-facto towns, but not quite big enough to be officially recognized as such. There's one about a half-hour drive from here that is a popular fishing site. It also has a privately-owned dirt airstrip that is half-jokingly referred to as an international airport (though, since it's known to receive Canadian crop dusters on rare occasions, the label is technically true).

  • @tudorjason
    @tudorjason2 жыл бұрын

    It's interesting you zoomed in on Washington State. Although Washington has a large number of unincorporated areas as well as areas that are called census designated places, a law was passed in 1990 to actively seek unincorporated areas that should incorporate or be annexed with existing cities. This has caused some cities to balloon in population. The city of Kent grew by 24000 in a year to become the state's 6th largest by annexing a large area on a hill.

  • @hollylund4146

    @hollylund4146

    2 жыл бұрын

    Shout out to Bothell WA for doing the same and becoming a suburban archipelago

  • @tudorjason

    @tudorjason

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@hollylund4146 Spokane Valley too

  • @MastrCake

    @MastrCake

    2 жыл бұрын

    Okay, you do realize the Seattle and Starbucks jokes were Sam literally dunking on the Puget Sound region for annexing everything, right?

  • @simplyepic3258
    @simplyepic32582 жыл бұрын

    I’m from one of the unincorporated non-town towns and I’ve never really known what to call it. Calling it an unincorporated community just doesn’t have the same ring as spreading fake news and just calling it a town. It’s also weird because while it’s technically unincorporated it directly borders 2 actual towns and has just as high of a population density as those towns. It’s basically a contiguous suburban area with those two towns, but for some reason those towns are towns and this one isn’t. And despite it not being a town it’s much nicer and better designed than the bordering towns.

  • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

    @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well, I guess that's a good reason to start your own town. To avoid communication errors.

  • @KruskDerTank
    @KruskDerTank2 жыл бұрын

    I’d be interested in a “How to start a School/University”

  • @Krydojae
    @Krydojae2 жыл бұрын

    I am that demographic of "someone who has 30 minutes to eat their lunch and the idea of being alone with their thoughts for longer than it takes to remove their phone from your pocket is too much of a nightmare for their psyche to bear." And I took that in as a lunch I microwaved steams in front of the monitor. feeling attackkedd

  • @Henchman1977
    @Henchman19772 жыл бұрын

    I remember trying to get a tow truck many years ago. I was at my friend's house which isn't in a town. Call center agent in Toronto couldn't understand how I wasn't in a town. She litteraly couldn't conceptualize a non-town space between 2 town boundaries. Anyways, had her dispatch from closest town, convinced her the driver would know where I was...

  • @jaquar1957
    @jaquar19572 жыл бұрын

    “You can cross out Ohio because, well, it’s Ohio” Me, who lives in Ohio: Why does this make perfect sense?

  • @nomobobby

    @nomobobby

    2 жыл бұрын

    Because if its not a town already, its a village. Never mind that some (probably most) of these are literally

  • @hiweirdbot

    @hiweirdbot

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me who lives in ohio: HOW THE HELL DOES IT HAVE 11 MILLION PEOPLE LIVING HERE

  • @EebstertheGreat

    @EebstertheGreat

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nomobobby Nah, there are a ton of townships in Ohio that aren't incorporated. Villages are municipalities with less than 5,000 people, and cities are municipalities with more than 5,000 people, but most land is between municipalities and is administered directly by the county. Ohio just doesn't use the word "town" in its constitution.

  • @twilson3133

    @twilson3133

    2 жыл бұрын

    There is actually a lot of unincorporated land in Ohio

  • @president2887

    @president2887

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ohayou 😽 uWu

  • @TheRealDieselKings
    @TheRealDieselKings2 жыл бұрын

    I lived in a subdivision, originally started in part by NASA, that recently became a town. It was a nightmare situation between the homeowners association and the new city. Lots of fighting about who got what money.

  • @amberb9701
    @amberb97012 жыл бұрын

    “Or you have 30 minutes for lunch break and you can’t part with your phone.” I’m on my lunch break while watching this 😂

  • 2 жыл бұрын

    I felt attacked 😂

  • @Del_S
    @Del_S2 жыл бұрын

    You need splash potion of weakness and two golden apples, then two zombie villagers, and then throw bread at them whe- Oh, you mean in real life. Okay....

  • @wynnexed

    @wynnexed

    2 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @isaacmccarty4578
    @isaacmccarty45782 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video, can’t wait to start my own town!

  • @bobjones1290

    @bobjones1290

    2 жыл бұрын

    town time

  • @texaspatriot2038
    @texaspatriot20382 жыл бұрын

    I've always wanted to start my own city, thanks

  • @VinceTaglia
    @VinceTaglia2 жыл бұрын

    I want to start a @NotJustBikes town in the US where we copy Dutch city planning and build an actually nice city to live in. Just need to find somewhere to settle!

  • @gamermapper

    @gamermapper

    2 жыл бұрын

    Also free healthcare and with better police would've been nice too

  • @raaaaaaaaaam496

    @raaaaaaaaaam496

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gamermapper there’s no way a municipality could afford free healthcare or manage the increased traffic from people trying to get it.

  • @raaaaaaaaaam496

    @raaaaaaaaaam496

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just setup as a suburb of a larger town. Or heck even convince a developing survive to secede from a larger cityn

  • @SantinoDTOO

    @SantinoDTOO

    3 ай бұрын

    @@raaaaaaaaaam496 Why? When county hospitals were a thing, healthcare actually cared and cost the citizens significantly less.

  • @ekairim
    @ekairim2 жыл бұрын

    i do remember in history that large corporations could create towns, mainly to support a community for their workforce. main example are mining towns.

  • @guilhermetavares4705
    @guilhermetavares47052 жыл бұрын

    Here in Brazil there are no counties, and all places are divided into municipalities. A new city is only created when another city splits, and in recent years this has hardly been approved. There is even a debate in the federal government about doing away with some small towns that cannot support themselves financially.

  • @JohnDoe-jk2do
    @JohnDoe-jk2do2 жыл бұрын

    2:59 corn

  • @moumous87
    @moumous872 жыл бұрын

    0:10 nope, I’m in the bathroom

  • @SimonTimbers
    @SimonTimbers2 жыл бұрын

    I had no clue it was so rare to live somewhere unincorporated. Hopefully it stays that way for me!

  • @colinsutherland201
    @colinsutherland2012 жыл бұрын

    Moodus CT is not a town, it is part of the town of East Haddam CT

  • @Sketchitect
    @Sketchitect2 жыл бұрын

    When I clicked on this video I thought that Sam would name his town, Half a Town, or something cool similar to that! Great Video though!

  • @rejvaik00
    @rejvaik002 жыл бұрын

    Funny thing is that the: 3:59 _"pass local laws thing to prevent Jews from living there"_ is technically within the power of the those who run the indigenous reservations They do have the ability to flatly deny and discriminate against accepting new residents based upon race How often do they use it? That I couldn't tell you But it is an interesting technicality nonetheless

  • @helloguy6913

    @helloguy6913

    2 жыл бұрын

    As someone from there I believe it is more because of the communities status as a historic sight that allows them to say that. However they could still rent land. Also the rule was changed this past year so it no longer matters

  • @stansman5461

    @stansman5461

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why would they possibly not allow the Jews to settle there? When has the Jews settling in a place ever ended badly for the residents of said place?

  • @syahmiirfan6779

    @syahmiirfan6779

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@stansman5461 not sure if that's supposed to be sarcasm or a genuine question..

  • @stansman5461

    @stansman5461

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@syahmiirfan6779 sarcasm

  • @alexstauffer3359
    @alexstauffer33592 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in Carlsbad, California. They incorporated for the exact reason you gave: to prevent the area from being taken over by its neighboring cities.

  • @Arkteckx
    @Arkteckx2 жыл бұрын

    Sam, you are the King. Best videos on the net! Love this one!

  • @korakys
    @korakys2 жыл бұрын

    "Town" and "municipal government" have practically no relationship to each other where I live (New Zealand). The thought of a town having its own government is a non-starter here, outside of the singular case of Kuwerau.

  • @pinnappleman3190

    @pinnappleman3190

    2 жыл бұрын

    How does that work? Your city councils can’t pass their own laws?

  • @korakys

    @korakys

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@pinnappleman3190 cities have their own councils but towns are grouped into districts that contain many towns, typically a dozen or so but sometimes more.

  • @iliketrains0pwned
    @iliketrains0pwned2 жыл бұрын

    2:41 "You can cross out these states for a new town because they're entirely incorporated..." North Jersey: Ha ha, boroughitis go *_BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR_* _breaks into hundreds of even smaller towns_

  • @zack9777

    @zack9777

    2 жыл бұрын

    You forgot the shore was well, from Louch Arbor to Wildwood

  • @WanukeX
    @WanukeX Жыл бұрын

    Some Canadian Provinces definetly do. At least I know Ontario does, it’s under sections 171 to 173 of the Municipal Act, 2001 and O.Reg 216/96, if you live in the Unincorporated Territory, you have to give notice of a public meeting in a newspaper that has “general circulation” in the area you want to make a town, you need to have *at least* one other person who lives in the area to show up to the public meeting, so I assume the minimum required population is 2, then if you get majority support to incorporate, you have to submit a restructuring proposal to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. If the Minister says sure they can order it to happen and voila new town.

  • @chernoboogaloo
    @chernoboogaloo2 жыл бұрын

    Me n my buddies back in 9th grade made a plan to start our own town in Oregon, and I'm fairly surprised with how legal that plan may have been (despite its extreme stupidity) seeing as I even found a large bit of unincorporated land, we even asked the teacher if they wanted to invest in it (jokingly, obviously) as it was hundreds of thousands of dollars. It was like 400 acres though I was impressed with the price

  • @NathanielHall
    @NathanielHall2 жыл бұрын

    WHO WANTS TO BUILD A TOWN WITH ME?

  • @User31129

    @User31129

    2 жыл бұрын

    DO YOU WANT TO BUILD A TOOOOWWWN?

  • @bcubed72
    @bcubed722 жыл бұрын

    If I declare my own property a town, and elect myself sherrif, does that mean my actions in my "town" are then covered by Qualified Immunity? Cool.

  • @KayDay
    @KayDay2 жыл бұрын

    I heard that second guess as I was taking a bite and i legitimately looked around

  • @jbach2002
    @jbach20022 жыл бұрын

    There’s actually some benefits in living outside of city limits. I used to live in the Atlanta area where most towns run into each other. Except, in most cases you still have big gaps of unincorporated communities between different metro towns. Even though you’re address and utilities will be part of your nearest town. Anyway, where I lived we had city utilities and everything, but since we were outside of city limits we didn’t have to pay city taxes. Sure we still had county, state, and federal taxes, but just a couple miles down the road and you would have people paying city taxes too.

  • @amzfishman1
    @amzfishman12 жыл бұрын

    Guys, you can't just call me out like that at the beginning, please. It's hard enough trying to figure out why you sound so much like Sam from Wendover.

  • @patsfreak
    @patsfreak2 жыл бұрын

    Maine has ironically been working in the other direction. Last few decades have seen lots of towns unincorporated themselves because the populations have crashed in the North Woods.

  • @surge1229
    @surge1229Ай бұрын

    in Russia there is also a lot of unincorporated land but it is mostly taiga and tundra and steppe

  • @isaach.1135
    @isaach.11352 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in a small unincororated "town" in Washington (you really weren't far off). The way it worked, was that it was within 15 miles of the county seat that had the garbage, fire, and police district so the 2.5k or so citezens if this "non-town" payed taxes to the county who serviced the place with public works. Legally, it's called a "Census-designated place" where there's enough population density for something to be there but it's not incorporated. It's weird though as this non town had it's own PUD, fire station, couple of bars and shops, even a coffee shop or two last I checked. It started off as a lumber hub and the main export is still lumber (though a local brewery is starting to pick up pace). The couple folks I talked to there mentioned they don't want this little town to be incorporated as they liked the general freedoms they had to be in the middle of nowhere under the counties guidlines.

  • @Hchris101
    @Hchris1012 жыл бұрын

    In Canada 🇨🇦 there equivalent of ‘states’ are called rat baskets.

  • @Mav12able
    @Mav12able2 жыл бұрын

    In a nautshell to create a new municipality you need, depending on the state for exact requirements: - A minimum population (usually 500) - A petition from residents of the new town. - Approval from a local trial court, county, or state government. Note that in many states trial courts can exercise discretion to approve or deny however they see fit (ie size, percent unused land, plans for what the petitioners will do with the land etc.). There is unsettled case law over moral reasons for creating a new municipality. I.e for racial reasons is forbidden but whether this means a general “proper moral reason” requirement or not is still debatable. - Approval by referendum of the effected population. - Filing with the state government.

  • @epicredhead13
    @epicredhead132 жыл бұрын

    Storyblocks is a perfect sponsor considering every video is an ad for Storyblocks, demonstrating their content the whole time.

  • @justadictatorridingonanuke3714
    @justadictatorridingonanuke37142 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the tutorial I'll do this tomorrow

  • @oleksandrbyelyenko435
    @oleksandrbyelyenko4352 жыл бұрын

    0:50 that is a Ukrainian word (Табір /tabir) shown that means camp. It is flattering you have shown a stock video of Ukrainian dictionary, but that doesn't relate to towns at all ...

  • @ZNotFound

    @ZNotFound

    2 жыл бұрын

    A town is just a camp with heavy tents.

  • @oleksandrbyelyenko435

    @oleksandrbyelyenko435

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ZNotFound lol. Okay. Ahhaha

  • @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770
    @elijahfordsidioticvarietys87702 жыл бұрын

    There just HAS to be a sitcom episode where one of the characters tries to start their own town.

  • @Karnbir

    @Karnbir

    2 жыл бұрын

    Schitt's Creek is pretty much the same thing

  • @MrPerfs
    @MrPerfs2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for helping me not being alone with my thoughts

  • @AICommentator2.0
    @AICommentator2.02 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for beeing One of maybe three youtube channels where I even find the sponsored segment funny and interesting

  • @justfrankjustdank2538
    @justfrankjustdank25382 жыл бұрын

    cant wait till the "like banning jews from living there-" becomes the next great cut off meme in discord

  • @coke8077
    @coke80772 жыл бұрын

    This dude literally just described my lunch break…

  • @Bean-tp7bw

    @Bean-tp7bw

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same..

  • @Florida_Skies
    @Florida_Skies2 жыл бұрын

    Can’t wait to start my new town. thanks Sam!

  • @Xkbtbox

    @Xkbtbox

    Жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @KlaxontheImpailr
    @KlaxontheImpailr2 жыл бұрын

    At last, I can finally found my own town of Beaver Spleen, MB.

  • @MTN1601
    @MTN16012 жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @breawycker

    @breawycker

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @evandiliberto6238

    @evandiliberto6238

    2 жыл бұрын

    Very nice

  • @antoineczevek-morissette2901

    @antoineczevek-morissette2901

    2 жыл бұрын

    Super Nice

  • @evandiliberto6238

    @evandiliberto6238

    2 жыл бұрын

    Giga nice

  • @latestxd6907

    @latestxd6907

    2 жыл бұрын

    ultra nice

  • @trentenowen5875
    @trentenowen58752 жыл бұрын

    would a floating city be considered a town

  • @thyme_rosemary

    @thyme_rosemary

    2 ай бұрын

    Yes

  • @trentenowen5875

    @trentenowen5875

    2 ай бұрын

    I completely forgot that I made this comment

  • @thyme_rosemary

    @thyme_rosemary

    2 ай бұрын

    @@trentenowen5875 oh lol

  • @notharry9328
    @notharry93282 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the tutorial!

  • @dnosujsjqha
    @dnosujsjqha2 жыл бұрын

    Great video, I was looking forward to start my town.

  • @leakdeo
    @leakdeo2 жыл бұрын

    Finally, Wendover Heights can be a thing.

  • @Homer-OJ-Simpson

    @Homer-OJ-Simpson

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wendover Heights does exist. It’s next to Shelbyville and Springfield

  • @leakdeo

    @leakdeo

    2 жыл бұрын

    oh ok

  • @zaius68
    @zaius682 жыл бұрын

    01:00 states in kingla?

  • @ItzzAlooOfficial

    @ItzzAlooOfficial

    Жыл бұрын

    Canada

  • @ApolloTheDerg
    @ApolloTheDerg2 жыл бұрын

    This is interesting because I spend my day job working with municipalities across the US. I’ve seen a lot of neat little villages and towns.

  • @strider04
    @strider042 жыл бұрын

    Correction* Moodus is a village and CDP in the town of East Haddam ct, it is not a town itself, and the ghost town he metioned, named Johnsonville village btw, isnt a village or CDP as far as i can tell just a place now in the village of Moodus in the town of East Haddam

  • @desel8737
    @desel87372 жыл бұрын

    step 1: save the last minutemen from raiders step 2: build some beds and stuff in old buildings to finish the annoying helper quest step 2.5: ignore other settlements in need step 3: destroy everything and gather resources step 4: build your dream town step 5: help other settlements and become the general step 6: rule with an iron fist: turn those who dont fall in line into "chicken" food

  • @TheStickCollector
    @TheStickCollector2 жыл бұрын

    I want to do this

  • @KennyNGA

    @KennyNGA

    2 жыл бұрын

    If you help me creating an artificial island in europe you can build a town in my dictatorship

  • @Diojenes.

    @Diojenes.

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@KennyNGA i will bring a shovel if I can be a general

  • @TheStickCollector

    @TheStickCollector

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@KennyNGA sure, when will this be? I can set up a national band program

  • @KennyNGA

    @KennyNGA

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Diojenes. ofc bro you will be my admiral general diogenes

  • @KennyNGA

    @KennyNGA

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TheStickCollector still in work but i already found sand

  • @alahiri2002
    @alahiri20022 жыл бұрын

    I was literally thinking about this yesterday.

  • @triangulator01
    @triangulator012 жыл бұрын

    the first 15 seconds really hit home.

  • @Alexifeu
    @Alexifeu2 жыл бұрын

    My Town would have no Starbucks and all the others besides Starbucks. Apple stuff would be forbidden and we all would just be gamers. Everyone who wants to get Computer parts shall get them at MSRP and no scalpers allowed. Also it would be named Tilted Towers. Rules: No one can hurt someone when they are saying No.

  • @ThePlayfarer

    @ThePlayfarer

    2 жыл бұрын

    Finally, a mayor of culture.

  • @ukatoahthecathumanhybrid2272
    @ukatoahthecathumanhybrid22722 жыл бұрын

    "Whatever they call states in Canada." Oh, we call them Provinces and the northern three are called territories, just so you know.

  • @Belboz99

    @Belboz99

    2 жыл бұрын

    Technically not all states in the United States call themselves "states" either, some call themselves things like "commonwealths".

  • @SorenCowellShah

    @SorenCowellShah

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think he was probably joking and does know :)

  • @wynnexed

    @wynnexed

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@SorenCowellShah Yeah

  • @ukatoahthecathumanhybrid2272

    @ukatoahthecathumanhybrid2272

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@SorenCowellShah Just for people wondering, not just him.

  • @urfavneighborhoodguatemalan
    @urfavneighborhoodguatemalan2 жыл бұрын

    I was actually looking at create my own town recently, thank for the video

  • @03timdol
    @03timdol Жыл бұрын

    Always enjoy a local reference (sad isn’t it). I live just down the road from Upton Snodsbury and North Piddle ( and even Wyre Piddle), we do have some barmy place names here in England. There is a good brewery in Wyre Piddle with classic beers like “Piddle in the Wind” and “Piddle in the Snow”

  • @salatelmashe6023
    @salatelmashe60232 жыл бұрын

    I'm the first one to comment

  • @evandiliberto6238

    @evandiliberto6238

    2 жыл бұрын

    Far from lol

  • @xp8969

    @xp8969

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nope, you were 32nd

  • @salatelmashe6023

    @salatelmashe6023

    2 жыл бұрын

    what

  • @stevencooper4422
    @stevencooper44222 жыл бұрын

    3:58 that town is based lol

  • @shanemooon
    @shanemooon2 жыл бұрын

    We have tons of unincorporated towns in DFW. Those get county services mainly.

  • @Giurigi123
    @Giurigi1232 жыл бұрын

    Tnx for not leaving me alone with my thoughts

  • @lunaargentum1743
    @lunaargentum17432 жыл бұрын

    i see this isn't a video for international viewers when only US citizens can start their own town. but you know what? i'll take the free healthcare over starting my own town xD

  • @kolomaznik333

    @kolomaznik333

    2 жыл бұрын

    "Free" ... lol ... dream again :D

  • @lunaargentum1743

    @lunaargentum1743

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kolomaznik333 as a student in eu country, i assure you, i don't pay a single penny for my doctor's appointments or hospital stay. it all goes from my insurance, that the government pays for me

  • @kolomaznik333

    @kolomaznik333

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lunaargentum1743 "insurace", "goverment pays for me" ... lol .. in other words net taxpayers (and future generations) pay for all of that... surprise it is not FREE. You live on the expense of others. In my country it is called "insurace" but is only to fool stupid people because in reality it is just income tax no.2 not real insurance... and that tax is huge (it is so huge people have quite small net incomes) and has nothing to do with health but only income, which gives people incentives to live iresponsible lives. And also totally drains the budget. Also public medical services are crap and you cannot really pay for optional better service because.. "free socialist healthcare". But if you go to private clinic to get some stuff not paid by "insurance", then look on price then it is quite low. Also if you can compare price of same procedure when in private u pay "by cash" with price "insurance company" have to pay for similar stuff in public "free heathcare" somehow price for "free" is quite higher than "by cash in that evil private clinic" and also "free healthcare prices for medical procedures" are set by govement.. long story short bunch of guys in office of sec. of heatlhcare sets the prices as they want... based on their feelings at the moment I guess, so no competition. One real example: You are parent and you have a little kid with special problem but expensive or expensive and experimental medicine/treatment exist. Forget about it because that is not that "free healthcare" we promised to you and taxed you heavy for. But if you are lucky enough to yourself fundraise milions thanks to ordinary people then the goverment is now interested and you have to raise more and more money because they want more money so they want TAXES from that... Really great system... nice mafia. Or you may try to beg media that your kid is "dramatic enough story for TV" so it may spin public opinion and then goverment, maybe because they want likes on their social networks, then maybe they will for this one special time not place that tax on your kid life... Or if you are even more lucky... they suddenly and miraculously find all the money for that special treatment. But it mut be on TV and their FB, insta, etc.. disgusting! Free healthcare system is so greedy and afraid of competition that you cannot completly renounce "free healthcare" (I dont want it so I dont pay a single penny) and find some real private insurance with lower price and better service because it would show that "free healthcare" is myth.

  • @coltonscott8051
    @coltonscott80512 жыл бұрын

    3:38 went from 0-100 real quick

  • @FantasyFlighty
    @FantasyFlighty2 жыл бұрын

    Connecticut also has the census designated places of Georgetown, which I swear is not a town, and Moosup, to name a few. There’s exactly 169 registered towns, meaning Georgetown will always be a misnomer.

  • @samuelhouston7274
    @samuelhouston72742 жыл бұрын

    intro caught me, I watch these videos every day at lunch

  • @XZenon
    @XZenon2 жыл бұрын

    Happy to hear you mentioning other countries

  • @marcswg
    @marcswg2 жыл бұрын

    Congrats on 2 mil :)

  • @jasonfoil9888
    @jasonfoil98882 жыл бұрын

    I'll let y'all know when you can move to Bing Bong, TN

  • @matthewschwarz9484
    @matthewschwarz94842 жыл бұрын

    Literally watching this on my lunch break

  • @adog3129
    @adog31292 жыл бұрын

    Wow. Watching this while eating my lunch. You got me.

  • @Chumpatrol1
    @Chumpatrol12 жыл бұрын

    I live in CT and remember the article about Johnsonville appearing on the news - it now is part of a Phillipine Church settlement

  • @thedapperdolphin1590
    @thedapperdolphin15904 ай бұрын

    Allegheny County, which is where Pittsburgh is located, is one of the most fractured counties in the U.S, which is in large part due to the fact that there were little barriers to creating a town back in the day. So we got places like Hahsville, which is only about 70 people and two roads, or Pennsbury Village, which is just some condos that broke away from their suburb to become their own town. Most of the municipalities are unsustainable, and it’s difficult to make county-wide fixes on a lot of issues when you have to go through 130 different municipalities. So most of them should just combine with somewhere else, but people are too stubborn to do that.

  • @PParsa
    @PParsa14 күн бұрын

    0:44 i forced my parents to do that when i was 5 The battle of "bedroom town" and "living roomstan" was legendary