I enjoy these quiet little towns - very quaint

@Realunitedstates

4 жыл бұрын

Me too Evan. Which in a strange way is a fortunate thing, because I'm living in one now. LOL! Quaint, quiet, and sort of like living on a different planet from where I was. Thanks!

Best episode I still remember that old episode also nice see u here best of luck

@Realunitedstates

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Zia! I still had a couple of episodes from before the move. Still trying to get settled so we can make some new videos. LOL!

Here we have incredibly creative county names such as, Pine, Lake, Iron, etc. Lol

@Realunitedstates

4 жыл бұрын

LOL! Well, it's true that some parts of the country simply named things for the surrounding features. But, your state also is home to Fillmore County, Grant County, Lincoln County, all named for Presidents, and Cook County, named for a Civil War veteran Major.

hi paul, really interesting. I hadn't thought about how the pre and post revolution, and pre and post civil war would have such a noticeable effect on the names down there. it makes perfect sense that you mention it, I just had never thought about it. We don't have those same markers that caused such swings in style of names here and the area I grew up in was an earlier settlement and settled rather quickly so compared to other areas so it's all mostly uk based and early settlers inspired with a dash of general europe (have you been to Hamburg or Paris... ontario's version is a tad different😉). I grew up close to the forks of the thames in London and if you followed that river you get to Stratford where they have theatres and Shakespearean plays as the centerpiece of every season. not down the road you have waterloo and from there Cambridge isn't far at all. the maps around here are somewhat ridiculous in that sense and their's nothing like googling to try to find something, thinking you've found the perfect thing, and realizing it's in the uk- just same name and same street names, you'd expect to find here!! I always enjoy the partnered names when they show up. something quite nice about the story that might be telling (good or bad) about the reason why they'd be named as such. the sign you were in front of sharing with Queen Anne's co is almost poetic when you just walk around to reveal a whole different thing (wording this badly but hope y'know what I mean!) Whenever you were filming this you sure had the lighting gods on your side. It just looks like a beautiful day, like movie perfection beautiful! and in such a bucolic setting. idk, just looks perfect to me :D

@Realunitedstates

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Annie. It is always so nice to hear from you. One could probably dedicate an entire channel to what, how and why things in the US are named the way they are. Indeed as I think about it I quite often do spend part of an episode covering the history of the name of a place or thing. To me at least it seems important to think about why something bears a certain name, and the it's not just a random thing. Anyway, we did get extraordinarily lucky with the light at the exact moment on that exact day.

That was very interesting Paul. I never knew that - I presumed that they were named by settlers but not the East to West. I'm from Manchester NW of UK and I know there's a Manchester, NH so I just googled it. I was surprised and certainly ties in with what you said, of all the UK place names surrounding Manchester such as Epping, Salisbury, Pembroke, Rochester, Dover etc. There must have been some settlers from Northern Ireland too (Londonderry etc) Funnily enough there's another Manchester AND Londonderry going West too in VT (Vermont?) I've always noticed there are a lot of 'villes' and 'creeks' over in the US too. How big are the county's over there? There always seem to be a good number or is it how long is piece of string? PS - top camera work Bev :-)

@Realunitedstates

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Well, counties vary considerably in size in different places across the US. But, by way of example, the country I grew up in, on the other side of the state, has about 44 townships. In Michigan at least, a township is comprised of 36 square miles (6 miles by 6 miles). But it varies across the country. There are I believe only three counties in Delaware, while there are over 250 in Texas. And even within a state a country may vary from say 250 square miles to over 2000 square miles. It's so of an arbitrary unit of government. (Bev says thank you.)

@JustCalMeBozeman

4 жыл бұрын

I live near Manchester, New Hampshire, funny you mentioned it. A lot of New England has town names borrowed from the UK.

You filmed that on your way to Michigan.

@Realunitedstates

4 жыл бұрын

Not really. Actually we filmed this a couple of weeks before we left.