I’m surprised no one has mentioned Kansas City, which is generally considered to be in Missouri although Kansas City, KS, abuts it and may be the same city for all I know.
Missouri’s other big city, St. Louis, is practically in Illinois. East St. Louis, Illinois, has the best views of the city’s skyline although there is not much else to recommend it–ESL has shown up on lists of most impoverished cities in the U.S. and has had public corruption scandals befitting its state affiliation.
Similar deal with Cincinnati–downtown is right on the river, and a five minute ride over a bridge takes you into another state. The Queen City’s primary airport is in Kentucky, whose economic development authority has competed very strongly against Ohio for distribution and office business.
New Jersey tries to lure Philadelphia’s businesses across the state line as well, although neither Philly nor the Garden State like to admit they touch each other. That’s southern New Jersey, by the way, which is also considered low-class by northern and central NJ, which in turn is considered low class by New York City, which is only incidentally in New York State
We used to live in Geneva which is sort of surrounded by France. We’d go shopping in France because they had more space for supermarket type stores and many items were cheaper. There are French that live around Geneva and come in just to work during the day. I think they’re referred to as Fronteliers.
From the satellite map it doesn’t seem as if any significant part of the population surrounding Las Vegas extends into either Arizona or California. By contrast Memphis downtown literally abuts the Arkansas border.
Arky, you’re cracking me up. That restaurant is so much of an institution that anyone within 50 milles of the place would have to be a shut-in not to know about it.
(My sister-in-law went to school across the street, at which point I discovered that they give rather deep discounts to area locals.)
Neither does this map. I guess we can knock Vegas off that list, then. Thanks for the clarification.
I suppose an analogous situation exists for Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg in Tennessee, where the Great Smoky Mountains National Park separates them from “nearby” (as seen on a road map) North Carolina. I’ll wager they don’t regard themselves as “border towns” either.
Not really, although there’s plenty of satellite towns within a short commute. (Relatives of mine live right on the border - literally, the end of their garden is part of it - and cross into the Republic when they nip to the local shop for a pint of milk.)
I see its been answered already, but I lived as close to Vegas as you can get in Arizona(Bullhead City)and it is a long boring drive through the desert, bout 90 miles IIRC.Always nice to stop in Searchlight tho.
Al Ain UAE and Buraimi, Oman are basically the same city. There is no border checkpoint because that is up the road a ways into Oman. However, making a call from one part of town in the UAE to another in Oman is an international call, and auto insurance for the UAE will not be valid on the Oman side. The UAE side has a lot more trees too.
Bratislava, Slovakia is right on the border with Austria, across the Danube. Lots of cross commuting there.
Right. If you look at that map, the most significant portions of Chattanooga are north of the interstate, and most of the city south of it is actually East Ridge, a suburb surrounded by Chattanooga and the Georgia line. Fort Oglethorpe, Rossville, and Ringgold are all major suburbs, too, but none of them are all that large. I think all three of them together are smaller than the city I live in, which is pretty small at only 40,000 itself.
That was a blatant attempt at a land grab by Georgia due to the Southeastern drought of recent years. The Tennessee River is the largest source of fresh water near Atlanta, and I think most of the land from here to there is downhill, so building an acqueduct wouldn’t be that difficult. I don’t know of anyone who took it seriously (the mayor here sent the mayor in Atlanta a large delivery truck of bottled water as a publicity stunt) and I imagine there would be a lot of outrage if Georgia seriously tried to annex any of our territory.
Thanks, Aesiron, for clearing up the Georgia “land grab” thing and for explaining how the portion of 'Nooga south of downtown is not really all that Georgia after all.
BTW, just now on a recorded Antiques Roadshow program, somebody had a Currier and Ives print of Lookout Mountain that looked completely bogus to me. My mental image of the mountain is that it’s part of a wall of high ground rising from the river. This painting looked like a stand-alone peak pretty well surrounded by flat lands.
San Diego is a border town, but that’s almost a technicality. The bulk of San Diego, including downtown, is about a half hour north of the border. South of downtown are the cities of Chula Vista and National City. There is a narrow stretch of the city of San Diego that runs under the water of San Diego Bay from downtown southward to the area known as San Ysidro, which is on the border with Mexico. San Ysidro is thus considered to be within the city limits of San Diego proper, but San Ysidro is hanging onto the rest of San Diego by a thread.
So, San Diego does not really have any identity issues as a border town that I’ve ever noticed. The biggest issues that I ever saw when I lived there was occasional news about immigration, drug tunnels, and Mexican pollution in the Tijuana River flowing northward across the border into San Diego.
In the Rio Grande Valley in Texas there are a bunch of cities that run right into each other–for instance, Mission, McAllen, Edinburg, and Pharr. It can be a matter of what side of the street you happen to be on to determine what city you’re in. As far as being on an international border, there is a feeling that even in the state of Texas, we are considered to be living in northern Mexico. Of course, that’s true as well of the U.S. government. When I lived in El Paso, we felt more akin to New Mexico as far as culture. There was a huge difference, and seems to continue to be (thankfully), between Juarez and El Paso. It always irritates me that so many times on things like the weather channel, they show a map of Texas and it has El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley lopped off.
IIRC, El Paso, Texas is just across the border from Juarez, Mexico. Not really sure you can consider them one city, what with the two different federal laws they’re each subject to, but they’re near enough.
