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(DIR) Post #An555oEmDMFpM60jMO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-17T00:46:17Z
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Is there anything in the USA you would describe with the word "village"
(DIR) Post #An55Drkx0zUIaNtyHw by JimJoe@mastodon.social
2024-10-17T00:47:43Z
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@futurebird Especially this time of year, Santa's Village is popping up on every corner and in every mall!
(DIR) Post #An55Ez5ZEpyfcJ4uVE by ochaos@techhub.social
2024-10-17T00:47:47Z
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@futurebird only "idiots" comes to mind.
(DIR) Post #An55FywrFJqlTFTpXE by MagentaRocks@mastodon.coffee
2024-10-17T00:47:58Z
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@futurebird That is a word we don't use often enough in the US.Also Greenwich Village baby!!
(DIR) Post #An55J8G55W5nDKyR4S by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-17T00:48:41Z
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@MagentaRocks If it doesn't have a grain mill or something it's not a "village" IMO
(DIR) Post #An55KqYVsRostCPeW8 by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2024-10-17T00:48:58Z
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@futurebird This seems like an extremely NYC question.Having spent a little time upstate around the Finger Lakes.
(DIR) Post #An55N00RiABomLVL1M by SRLevine@neuromatch.social
2024-10-17T00:49:17Z
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@futurebird I know some towns that call themselves that ("village of X" rather than "town of X") would that count? Apparently where I grew up it's technically a different form of government and that's how calling something a town/village/boro/city/etc get determined.
(DIR) Post #An55P5qgxXdBTjwNrk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-17T00:49:34Z
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@michael_w_busch I have lived in a very small town. But I've never seen anything I'd call a "village"
(DIR) Post #An55RPkHxG4Tla3IsS by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2024-10-17T00:50:09Z
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@futurebird I may have different boundaries on the concept.
(DIR) Post #An55aPm1Dj0cSX9Z2m by whknott@mastodon.social
2024-10-17T00:51:48Z
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@futurebird I live in a village that calls itself a city.
(DIR) Post #An55lAKQz6GPk8NS9Q by benetnasch@writing.exchange
2024-10-17T00:53:44Z
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@futurebird I work in a plaza that calls itself a Village.
(DIR) Post #An55mNM82DBOR6kMhk by MagentaRocks@mastodon.coffee
2024-10-17T00:53:48Z
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@futurebird Oh, I'm thinking of how it the term is used in the UK. A grain mill would make me think farm. NY State has 556 villages according to Wiki. Who knew? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_New_York_(state)#Village
(DIR) Post #An55nsJsOjdkl3PNbc by jmax@mastodon.social
2024-10-17T00:54:15Z
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@futurebird - I am handicapped by having many relatives in New York State, where "village" is apparently a technical term for some municipalities.
(DIR) Post #An5689HX2heV9myky0 by silvermoon82@wandering.shop
2024-10-17T00:57:44Z
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@futurebird In Canada, "village" just means a very small town, fewer than maybe a couple thousand people. I think the village I grew up near was something like 1300 people at the time? And the high school serves 800-some students.
(DIR) Post #An56VZ6lBfmxur6elU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-17T01:02:08Z
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@ccampboyle I'm in shock I thought it was just people trying to be needlessly cute.
(DIR) Post #An57Bfa5Vk449ctvpw by NicoleCRust@neuromatch.social
2024-10-17T01:09:43Z
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@futurebird A bit kitsch, but …https://leavenworth.org/the-bavarian-village-of-leavenworth/
(DIR) Post #An57QVmIF0TY5tgfaa by epicdemiologist@wandering.shop
2024-10-17T01:12:19Z
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@futurebird I live in the Southeast and have never used the word "village" for anything that wasn't a living history site. But I think in New England maybe?
(DIR) Post #An58MidYaatMluM9Wi by spacelizard@aus.social
2024-10-17T01:22:55Z
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@futurebird Interesting. As someone who grew up in the UK but moved to Australia almost 20 years ago I noticed that this is one of the differences between British English and Australian English, too.In the UK any settlement below a certain size would be called a village, or in extreme cases maybe even a hamlet.In Australian every settlement smaller than a city is a town unless it consists of only 3 or 4 buildings, in which case it might be called a locality instead. When the word "village" is used in Australia it's usually as part of the name of a strip mall in a tourist destination.
(DIR) Post #An58O1qSewLKdO16O0 by Tergenev@mastodon.social
2024-10-17T01:23:11Z
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@futurebird Damascus, Ohio, population 418. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus,_Ohio
(DIR) Post #An5AMMHdtmMjLt3tg0 by MichaelTBacon@social.coop
2024-10-17T01:27:12Z
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@futurebird
(DIR) Post #An5AWUyESJa1BpomFU by MichaelTBacon@social.coop
2024-10-17T01:29:47Z
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@futurebird Okay seriously, one of the things I learned doing field work in rural Scotland is that "village" means a small collection of shops. Someone who lives in a small town may say "I'm going down to the village to do some shopping."Because it's in my mind because of the news, I'm thinking of "downtown" Chimney Rock, NC, which was obliterated by Helene. In the UK that'd have been called a village.
(DIR) Post #An5AWp9FR4H7ln7rCC by MichaelTBacon@social.coop
2024-10-17T01:32:54Z
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@futurebird Speaking of "downtown" . . . Near as I can tell "downtown" is a generalized Manhattanism, which is kind of funny. Like this place on the side of US 64 deep in a river gorge in the southern Appalachians is, from what I can tell, adopting a name given to one of the densest areas of the US . . . a portion of which is locally known as "the village."
(DIR) Post #An5AkIlOdbvtNuOc5I by steve@discuss.systems
2024-10-17T01:49:30Z
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@futurebird plenty of them up here in Northern New England.
(DIR) Post #An5ArvE623LOhbSCLg by emb@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-10-17T01:50:46Z
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@futurebird @bob The Villages, Florida. Look it up, you’re bound to be entertained by the craziness that goes on in the largest retirement community! 🤭
(DIR) Post #An5BuXvtC4fZHUkjmS by LeafyEricScott@fosstodon.org
2024-10-17T02:02:39Z
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@futurebird I think maybe some indigenous communities in Alaska are officially "villages"? (That could be outdated info)
(DIR) Post #An5C9WcsKmSJZY0Aca by andyhilmer@mstdn.social
2024-10-17T02:05:22Z
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Yes, but they are usually not described that way. Instead they are particularly remote examples of rural towns, with an airstrip and maybe a road that’s impassible for a good part of the year. Often also referred to as “BFE”, or “town”, as in the only place in 300 miles to have gasoline and a parts store.@futurebird
(DIR) Post #An5CUNro5zg4UHvquO by VampiresAndRobots@writing.exchange
2024-10-17T02:09:08Z
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@futurebird where I lived in NY we had villages, towns, and cities, which had designations bases in population maybe? But here in TX, everything is a city, whether there's a million people or 10.
(DIR) Post #An5EUQXANa1afSQT0y by barrygoldman1@sauropods.win
2024-10-17T02:31:32Z
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@futurebird no... they all got stretched out onto route 9s full of mcdonalds
(DIR) Post #An5EXtjgGQmg6Wvzs0 by barrygoldman1@sauropods.win
2024-10-17T02:32:07Z
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@futurebird i've not met too many cities except for nyc eitheramerica doesn't like these things. possibly never has
(DIR) Post #An5Inxq9AhudHdsKx6 by gdinwiddie@mastodon.social
2024-10-17T03:19:53Z
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@futurebird We call them “small towns.”
(DIR) Post #An5KPKvqNaEBZQvNh2 by SETIEric@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-10-17T03:37:51Z
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@futurebird In Wisconsin there is a political distinction. I grew up in the village of Cornucopia (pop ~150), a drinking village on the shores of Lake Superior with an unfortunate fishing problem. Cornucopia is located in the Town of Bell. A township could contain multiple villages, although Cornucopia is the only surviving village in Bell Township.
(DIR) Post #An5KTtDeqG2L4LQabw by chris_hayes@fosstodon.org
2024-10-17T03:38:40Z
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@futurebird in my mind—if it doesn't have a Dunkin, it's probably a village.
(DIR) Post #An5MmK7dkvRtczWymW by westerling@wandering.shop
2024-10-17T04:04:24Z
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@futurebird I live in New England, in a small town that is made up of five distinct, legally-designated villages. The entire town is around 2,000 people. Oh and one half of one village is in one town and the other half is in the neighboring town.
(DIR) Post #An5bUtLlXW02z8HfQu by yomimono@wandering.shop
2024-10-17T06:49:21Z
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@futurebird Wisconsin is riddled with them, both in the “legal designation of place” sense and the “cozy little town with one shop” sense. admittedly the one shop is a gas station, but you can frequently find old people gossiping in there so I think it counts
(DIR) Post #An5dz1h7HP5PSblePw by stib@aus.social
2024-10-17T07:17:08Z
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@futurebirdThese guys?
(DIR) Post #An5llt0N4hWuNa1FE8 by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-10-17T08:44:30Z
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@futurebird if the USA has no villages, where do all those villains come from?
(DIR) Post #An5m7B9CoguwjEIwG8 by leolevinsky@mastodon.social
2024-10-17T08:48:19Z
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@futurebird i live in what is officially called a village. There is a village and a town both have the same name but they have different rules. Example i’m not allowed to have chickens because im in the village but people who live outskirts de of the village in the are allowed to have livestock.
(DIR) Post #An5pAycTdX4qtXUy3M by rayhindle@mastodon.social
2024-10-17T09:21:24Z
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@futurebird Size wise, most of the cities in the Midwest are no bigger than a European village!