Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 4:22 am
gaffo wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 4:09 am
rent/housing is high in Vancouver - sadly for me, too poor to live there.
Here's something really weird. Did you ever realize that there's a little piece of the US that is cut off from the mainland by Canada, and is really close to Vancouver? It's called "Point Roberts, Washington." It might be more affordable, because Canadians can't buy that land, and US residents don't want to cross two borders just to get to the mainland US. Check it out.
yep, in know about it - its due to the whatever (58?) parallel line, that part of BC dipped down - so is part of the US (its literally like a 2 x 2 mile part of land). I love Geography and always had a fixation about such stuff (odd stuff for an oddball like me). I'v always assumed most Americans living there have to move through the canadian border to get things down (can americans live there and work in Canada? - odd legal question interest me too) - if not, i do not see too many job opportunities in Point Roberts for americans - only other option is a maybe a restourant or two there - or more likely taking a slow and long ferry ride to work - a few hours a day - to Seatle).
Do you know about the Border dispute between US and England (the Arristook "war") - about where to draw the border of Maine with New Bruswick (1840's?) - US wanted to take their border to the St Edwards, Canada was like fuck no! - so they settled with that river (whatever the name of it is) that sep NB from Maine - what is that town up there on northside of maine? i forget (rem being in a small grocery store and two pretty girls speaking French), i drove up there from Ok on my way to Halfax back in 2011 - just to "see the land" and go where i've not been before - lovely land and folks up here - very friendly/both maineites and NB/NS ites- i felt right at home up there (unlike when i drove to Miami/Key West in 2007 (in my Yaris again - when there since never been there - rude people down there! no wish to return to florda!).
Do you know about the piece of 100 ft land just north of Palttburg NY? (drove through there on my way back to Ok - Plattburg was bit of a pit, but the folks were nice) - there is a section of land that is american, but cut off from reaching except via lake champlain northern shore (i wonder if it is privatley owned or own by the US goverment?) you Canuck better not anex it, for doing so would be an act of war.
do you know about the island dispute? betweeen CA and US? there is a rock off the coast of Maine that had a CA lighthouse in 19th century, but abandoned by ww2, when americans placed a small fort there - since abondoned. the island is in dispute now! its an international crisis! 70 going and so far its not resolved (my fantasy is to write a book about CA and US going to war over it and starting ww3, it would make an interesting theme and be historically accurate and funny............but sadly i'm no writer. oh well.
Do you know about Minisota(sp) Lake of the Woods (yep another treaty dispute dating to 1820's i think) - that why there is that "little notch" above the 58th parallel up there that is ALL AMERICA! deal with it Canuck! it about the same size as Point roberts.
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also do you know about the US Mexico agreement during pres Kenney's time? the Rio Grande's ox box kept moving around over decades - cuting off american/mexicans from america/mexico - per that agreement the bourder was separated from the river - and many Mexicans living in parts cut off from mexico were granted US citizenship. I learned about this in the El Paso historical museim, interesting stuff.