The More You Know #91276891.2

"scoob" (scoobsti)
05/18/2015 at 21:00 • Filed to: None

I pulled a Rainbow and went on Google Maps to look at random places. Did you know there is a piece of ‘Murican land that is only accessible by going through Canada? Edit: Apart from Alaska.

It’s called Point Roberts and it’s not far from Vancouver. If you’re in Washington state and you want to go to Point Roberts, you have a choice of going by boat, air, swimming, or by car.

If you want to go by car, you have to drive up into Canadia, west a bit, then south back into Point Roberts.

There is only one school there, which teaches kids from kindergarten to third grade. If you live here and your child is in 4th grade, your child must go north into Canada, then back into Washington. Each and every day.

And finally there are absolutely no health care providers, so if you dun goofed or you need your teeth looked at you’re going to have to go to Washington.

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DISCUSSION (24)

MLGCarGuy > scoob
05/18/2015 at 21:04

Impress your relatives by saying you’re so rich you travel to Canada every day to go to school...

CB > scoob
05/18/2015 at 21:07

Yeah, borders and territories are super messed up all over the place. For example, there’s a town that has an theatre that is half in Canada, half in America. Fuck borders.

extraspecialbitter > scoob
05/18/2015 at 21:08

Did you know there is a piece of ‘Murican land that is only accessible by going through Canada?

Alaska?

scoob > CB
05/18/2015 at 21:09

So do you like need your passport to sit in a certain seat? That’s hilarious.

thebigbossyboss > scoob
05/18/2015 at 21:11

Kinja'd!!!

I am from here! Anmore!

lonestranger > scoob
05/18/2015 at 21:11

I thought you were going to say Northwest Angle .

Kinja'd!!!

It’s weird that I forgot about Point Roberts, seeing as how I live in B.C. and watch Vancouver news all the time.

thebigbossyboss > extraspecialbitter
05/18/2015 at 21:11

Hahaha. Yes.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > scoob
05/18/2015 at 21:12

Uhm, yeah, there’s also Alaska if you only count driving...

thebigbossyboss > scoob
05/18/2015 at 21:13

There is a whole bunch of these, but mostly they are unpopulated strips in the middle of a lake more or less in the middle of nowhere. Aside from many places in the panhandle of alaska, there is another one called “the northwest angle”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest…

CB > scoob
05/18/2015 at 21:14

I think the stage is in Canada and the seats are in the States. Here’s a link.

thebigbossyboss > CB
05/18/2015 at 21:14

That town predated the border.

CB > thebigbossyboss
05/18/2015 at 21:15

Yup, just read the Wikipedia article on it. If the local legend is true about surveyors being drunk, that’s hilarious.

And of course you know this.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > scoob
05/18/2015 at 21:20

Kinja'd!!!

There exists a chunk of land belonging to India inside of a chunk of land owned by Bangladesh inside a chunk of land owned by India inside of Bangladesh.

Kinja'd!!!

There’s also a town that’s fragmented into numerous small pieces between the Netherlands and Belgium.

scoob > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
05/18/2015 at 21:21

What’s Alaska?

thebigbossyboss > CB
05/18/2015 at 21:21

:D I have always been a politics and geography buff. If I didn’t do what I do, I’d be long haul exploring the continent. Even as it is, by July I will have driven from Vancouver all through to Sydney NS!