03-13-2021, 04:59 PM
Over the course of humans history, people have lived in hundreds of thousands of different villages, towns, and cities. Naturally, a number of these settlements are unusual in some way: it might be something interesting about their geography, or something odd about their history, or maybe their economy is driven by a weird industry. But, this is the place for all towns and cities that have something unusual about them - whatever it is .
I'll start with one of the most famous and most extreme examples - which is Baarle. It's split between the Netherlands and Belgium - and the international border looks like this:
As you can see, it's a bit ridiculous . There are restaurants where different tables are in different countries; car parks with spaces in different countries; and shops where you pick up your items in one country and pay for them in another. House numbers show which country the house is in (Dutch ones look like this, and Belgian ones look like this) - and there's one house with two numbers, because the border runs right through the middle of it . (In fact, there are a lot of houses that are partially in one country and partially in another - and, in these cases, the country you live in is the country where your front door is. It turns out that this is open to exploitation: if somebody in one of these houses wants to switch countries, then they can do this by moving their front door !!!)
So, has anybody here ever been there? Or do you know of any other unusual towns and cities that you think are worth a mention?
I'll start with one of the most famous and most extreme examples - which is Baarle. It's split between the Netherlands and Belgium - and the international border looks like this:
As you can see, it's a bit ridiculous . There are restaurants where different tables are in different countries; car parks with spaces in different countries; and shops where you pick up your items in one country and pay for them in another. House numbers show which country the house is in (Dutch ones look like this, and Belgian ones look like this) - and there's one house with two numbers, because the border runs right through the middle of it . (In fact, there are a lot of houses that are partially in one country and partially in another - and, in these cases, the country you live in is the country where your front door is. It turns out that this is open to exploitation: if somebody in one of these houses wants to switch countries, then they can do this by moving their front door !!!)
So, has anybody here ever been there? Or do you know of any other unusual towns and cities that you think are worth a mention?
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