I start the day with CBC Montreal, but hear #NPR from a few US locations during the day.
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I start the day with CBC Montreal, but hear #NPR from a few US locations during the day. It's funny that most areas at some point refer to "the tri-county area."
Counties seem to figure much more prominently in US culture. Sounds like most areas have an intersection of three counties that everyone knows about and refers to often?
Here we have counties too, but they rarely come up in discourse. Maybe in local gov planning or election riding (district) names.
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I start the day with CBC Montreal, but hear #NPR from a few US locations during the day. It's funny that most areas at some point refer to "the tri-county area."
Counties seem to figure much more prominently in US culture. Sounds like most areas have an intersection of three counties that everyone knows about and refers to often?
Here we have counties too, but they rarely come up in discourse. Maybe in local gov planning or election riding (district) names.
It sounds funny to my ear just because it's so vague and non-specific to anyone not living there, and the actual county names are never specified.
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It sounds funny to my ear just because it's so vague and non-specific to anyone not living there, and the actual county names are never specified.
@ottaross Likewise with "the tri-state area"
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@ottaross Likewise with "the tri-state area"
@Aussiemandias oh yes, you hear that a lot. Similarly vague.
I guess there must often be cities near such intersections.
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I start the day with CBC Montreal, but hear #NPR from a few US locations during the day. It's funny that most areas at some point refer to "the tri-county area."
Counties seem to figure much more prominently in US culture. Sounds like most areas have an intersection of three counties that everyone knows about and refers to often?
Here we have counties too, but they rarely come up in discourse. Maybe in local gov planning or election riding (district) names.
@ottaross The US is a lot more isolated than it believes itself to be.
A lot of US locations (cities, areas, etc) are a bunch of people that have never left and never socialize with anyone outside of their own little group, and assume the rest of the country, maybe the planet, knows who they are and must behave like them.
I used to do consulting for a US company and sometimes would end up on a random project for a company at a small town like this and people were simply like that. Some guy shocked I was Brazilian, white, and spoke “English so well” - yes sir we have white Brazilians who learn English and use a computer. This sort of thing.
Wild.
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It sounds funny to my ear just because it's so vague and non-specific to anyone not living there, and the actual county names are never specified.
@ottaross yes! Same with "tri-state" and "twin cities"! Makes it hard to tell where they're on about
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@ottaross I don't think we have criminal law that's made more serious by doing it across county lines. Seems to come up in US TV plots a lot
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@ottaross We used to live in Carleton county, but that was replaced by a Regional Municipality - Ottawa-Carleton and then, of course, Harris replaced that with a single city - Ottawa.
Growing up in rural Ottawa-Carleton, it was all about the township. I lived in Osgoode township, a broad area that included Osgoode and Metcalfe villages and a whole lot of cows. The township had a council and mayor, rather than each tiny village.
In Ontario, I tend to see counties as rural administrative constructs - Lanark County, Prince Edward County, etc. As they grow they get divided up into townships and then turn into municipalities.
Meanwhile, in the US, everybody seems to live and breath their county, don't they? They put them on their weather maps. I've never seen county boundaries on a Canadian weather map.
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