How to Start Your Own Town

[@OceanAce]

Actual advantages: -You can be a mayor or part of the city council -You can issue municipal bonds to finance any ambitious projects that you want the town to be known for. Or to bring fiber internet into your wooded cabin. -You can override deed restrictions so that Karen the HOA manager isn't waking you up at 7am to remind you to cut your lawn. Just make sure she doesn't become part of the city council or else... -You can partner with metro service companies to bring their park and rides into your town so that you don't have to drive 45 minutes to get to the park and ride.

[@LucaBlaLP]

Unfortunately, this all would cost so much money that it can only be done by rich people, who are only rich because they exploit their workers (unless you want to severely tax your citizens or the county / state / whatever provides you with an enormous amount of funding, which won't happen). In Bezosville, you can probably have all that, but only if its citizens work 16h shifts in Amazon's warehouses without break.

[@johnladuke6475]

@@LucaBlaLP OP had a good solution, issuing municipal bonds to raise the cash. The trick is, either the terms on your bonds have to be so terrible that nobody would want to buy them, or they would default fairly regularly because you're not mega-rich. But assuming that you're good at selling worthless bonds to stupid people, you can fund just about anything the town wants.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Right, but more importantly, you can name it something funny.

[@JPurvis10]

That Karen part sounded a bit personal

[@syrialak101]

@@johnladuke6475 So... scamming people?

[@chirhoiota885]

Yep, that intro was terrifyingly spot-on. I have about 30 minutes that I can possibly procrastinate showering so I can bartend a big military memorial this morning. I am not a fan of memorials and I'm fairly proud that my job is to just inebriate the heck out of everyone. Pardon me while I binge as much Half As Interesting as I can for the next... 25 minutes.

[@thelukesternater]

He scary…

[@local-admin]

Liked in the first 12 Seconds

[@Remls]

I am currently getting ready to go to work. Not even watching, just listening, because the alternative is having to think about all the meetings and other shit I gotta do today.

[@HiDDENk00l]

Take your shower, man. Set an alarm for 3 minutes and do it as fast as you can. Then you'd have ~20-21 minutes to watch more HAI. Of course, this comment is pretty redundant because time has passed. But it's not really for you, it's for the people reading this who can relate with your comment. That's right, YOU.

[@snaiper195]

I lotteraly was wating my lunch alone in my room

[@victorschlecht1069]

POV: You actually wanted to learn how to start your own country. Learning how to start your own town is 'Half as Interesting'

[@martonbalazskajari5424]

lol!!!

[@benjaminhaughton5408]

comedy town, population you.

[@builderboyny]

Wth… i searched up “Creating A Country” to learn how to make a country but found this……

[@lowenjennings]

lol got em

[@internet_userr]

POV: you don't have any patents Edit: fixed patents to parents

[@mihailoaleksic3330]

Fun fact: Here in Serbia, there is a city with population of 180 and a village with population of 8.000. Weird, but completely fine.

[@janmelantu7490]

There’s a *city* in Texas called “Jersey Village”

[@User31129]

Near where I live is The City of Orchard Lake Village, Michigan.

[@jacobarmour6325]

Similarly in the uk there is a city with less than 3000 people (st Davids) and a town with 218,000 people (Reading)

[@shinsenshogun900]

@@janmelantu7490 Jerseyville, TX would sound like as basic as Brownsville

[@Carewolf]

While in the US, Serbia is a city.

[@verdatum]

I'm too lazy to verify, but I was told that my university incorporated as a town so that, among other reasons, it allowed them to repaint the parking space lines to be thinner so they could pack more cars in there. I don't particularly doubt this, because, as a commuter student, I was required to spend hundreds of dollars per semester for a permit. And as a freshman, the best/only parking lot that freshman were allowed to get a permit for was over a mile from any classroom.

[@metroidnerd9001]

The city my university is in has a law that no building can be higher than the original university hall. To get around this for our stadium, they had to dig it into the ground.

[@acorgiwithacrown467]

Sound like your university was scamming you

[@gamermapper]

Imagine spending money on this and not on good public transport.

[@alsatusmd1A13]

Universities in the US and Canada rarely incorporate as towns because: A. They’re already on incorporated land even if they legally could. B. It’s probably a legal gray area if the proposed “town” is regularly unoccupied for the better part of four months.

[@bigbadbyte]

I have no legal training. I am not in any way in expert. But I am 100% sure this is correct and will fight anyone who disagrees

[@lbart37]

Just to be clear: Disney *can* have their own law enforcement through the Reedy Creek Improvement District, but doesn't - they use the Orange & Osceola County Sheriff's offices instead. Disney Security are security guards, no more powerful than mall security guards. See also the videos that Rob over at Midway to Main Street has done on the subject.

[@maximutatro3176]

Absolute cowards, capitalism has failed. I want disney death squads

[@vladimirenlow4388]

I imagine this places an undue burden on these law enforcement bodies that Disney doesn't compensate them for... and that they've made it known that this a problem, but it never gets fixed for $ome rea$on.

[@jaredf6205]

I would imagine they use all three, security, town police, and county sheriffs depending on where or what is going on.

[@katiekane5247]

Walmart uses our Sheriffs dept as it's security, creates jobs with such low pay, they HELP employees get Food Stamps. Corporate America at 'work'.

[@wheeledgoat]

I read that Disney directly employs a number of officers - I want to say 50?

[@kurtlindner]

00:43 Nobody expected Pileofclothesburg to rise to such power being so small, and landlocked; but its people were smart and cunning. The whole story began when Thomas Houseshoeman discovered a large rock salt deposit near the West end of the hallway -back then Pileofclothesburg was unincorporated and people just called it a hallway. Due to current mining techniques and resources, Thomas had no way of extracting the salt himself, so he devised a plan. The mining of rock salt was most effectively done with water in that region then, they'd pour in water and insert sticks, the brine evaporated and they'd collect the salt off the walls and from the sticks. The problem was that Pileofclothesburg simply didn't have any natural access to it's own water source. Thomas began talking with Juana Robenstein about his predicament. Juana owned the Easternmost property in the unincorporated Hallway, which included a small extension of land North, covering half of Bathroomshire entrance. Thomas and Juana became business partners and negotiated an exchange of that land with the Bathroomshire council for water rights from the Sink River. The Sink was near the rock salt deposit and they built an aqueduct to bring them their needed water. The salt from the end of the Hallway was very high quality rock salt, near pure sodium chloride, and with their extraction method it formed large flakes which were highly desirable for cooking and canning. Over time Thomas and Juana Married, and grew their business into the United Pile of Clothes Saltworks, eventually abbreviated to the PoC Saltworks for marketing purposes. The demand for their salt grew beyond their local House and soon the PoC Saltworks had dominance over all other salt production in the entire neighborhood. After Thomas passed away in 2014 Juana threw herself into the philanthropy she and Thomas had taken up in their later years. She wanted to put the salt back into the town she'd built her salty life on. Juana Started The Sel school for Salty Children and the now famous food chain Fleur de Sole; the business supports the school, and the school supports the community. Juana died 3 years later in 2017 and it was then that the now wealthy residents decided to honor their little hamlet's benefactors by renaming the now incorporated town of Hallway to Pileofclothesburg, after their company which brought so much to the people.

[@edibleminecraftcode1017]

this was too well written for what it was based off of. i got so attached to these characters and so into the writing. keep it up :)

[@GusThePrankster]

Underrated comment

[@mangle9143]

Beautiful

[@adityaruplaha]

Amazing

[@GusThePrankster]

I'm waiting for the sequel now

[@cemreomerayna463]

0:50 it is an Ukrainina dictionary and the finger is on the word табір, the word for camp. It is a common word in Eastern European languages (usually found as tabor/табор) and comes from a Turkic word "tabur", meaning fortificated military camps (made by encircling carts around the camp). Edit: Tabur exists in Modern Turkish, but the meaning has shifted to battalion. The word has spread to Eastern Europe (and actually entered to Modern Turkish) through Hungarian, but the ultimate source of the word is disputed (it is either from Chagatai or Crimean Tatar).

[@jacorp7476]

Interesting!

[@AussieCoasterReviewer]

Half as interesting!

[@itzmarkfx]

cool, in hungarian camp is tábor

[@Medino9846]

şimde türkiyede köy/kasaba yapabiliyormuyuz anlamadım

[@danielbishop1863]

Related fact: The US currently has two unincorporated "cities" with populations over 200,000: Paradise, NV (where most "Las Vegas" hotels/casinos are located to avoid paying city taxes) and Arlington, VA (across the Potomac from Washington, DC).

[@JL-sm6cg]

Las Vegas has a lot of unrecognized suburbs. I used to live in Whitney, then moved to Sunrise Manor, but it was still Las Vegas, just like Paradise, Winchester, Spring Valley, and Summerlin are. (OH, there was also one small 2 square mile place in the NW part of the city called The Lakes, which was where Citi took credit card payments, and was the only place in Nevada that didn't have a zip code starting with 89.)

[@JL-sm6cg]

Also, in the DC area, there's Silver Spring, MD, which at least at one point was the largest unincorporated cities in the US.

[@datpanda6435]

Virginia has a ton of unincorporated communities, even in urban areas like NOVA, so this doesn't surprise me

[@User31129]

Clinton Township, Michigan (NE Detroit) has 100,000 people and is the 8th most populated community in Michigan. It's unincorporated.

[@danielbishop1863]

And Texas has The Woodlands, a kinda-suburb of Houston with a population of 114,436 (2020 Census), that recently voted not to incorporate.

[@lukko6714]

I've made several languages and maps but I never thought of making a town. Heck, I wasted my time learning languages that I'll never really use (like Icelandic), but making a town is a whole different level of doing something for no reason. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to make a town. The only problem is making a city because I'll need an army of 5000 people. Yes, the definition of a city where I live is a settlement with more that 5000 people.

[@prim16]

Me and a few of my old tamagotchi pets can come, so, that's already a few hundred

[@qwertyuiopzxcfgh]

That's actually a decent definition (even though 5000 people isn't that many). Over here, there isn't an official definition of a city anymore, but the historical definition is "does it have city rights?", which haven't been handed out since the 19th century. This creates some weird situations though. We have a city with 30 inhabitants and a village with 500,000 inhabitants.

[@mihailoaleksic3330]

@@qwertyuiopzxcfgh OMG last sentence...

[@NathanielHall]

I CAN GET YOU PEOPLE

[@DangNguyen-xx3zi]

In my country, there's a list of hard criteria for a place to be considered a city. Other than some other bureaucratic numbers, the most important criteria are a) population of more than 150,000 and b) total developed area of more than 150 km2. Some towns managed to game the criteria and got themselves certified as a city, even though if you walk down the street of one, it looks just about like any random small town

[@Belboz99]

You should'dve also crossed out Wisconsin off your list of places to start a town. In Wisconsin, towns are what are in most states called townships. Thus, in Wisconsin... you can't create a town because the state already has created all the towns. You can only create a village or city.

[@brandonthewise4909]

You could start a village, though, which is just as good.

[@bobby_greene]

But we have unincorporated communities that are defined as census designated places to make up for it

[@greggcollins4215]

In Kansas there are no "towns". Incorporated communities are all "Cities" regardless of size or population.

[@wiscopolo44]

I believe Wisconsin has the superior system over subdividing. It’s much easier to have all territory organized to begin with.

[@owenater0780]

hello fellow cheesehead!

[@ZontarDow]

In Canada the process is undefined because what constitutes a town is up to the provincial government. They can create, divide, merge and separate towns at their leisure as all the responsibility of towns and any other level of government below the province exists entirely to operate on what powers the provincial government differs onto them. This is why in 2002 the cities on the Island of Montreal where merged into the City of Montreal without consultation, and in 2006 some of those cities where allowed to become independent again but all where under a new Island of Montreal Regional government made up of the mayors of each city and borough with the mayor of Montreal being the First Amongst Equals.

[@johnladuke6475]

It hurts my brain. You want "were" not "where" for every use there. But I do also have something relevant to municipal-provincial relations to point out. This kind of situation is most common these days - similar municipal amalgamation stories exist for both Toronto and Hamilton in Ontario. I've even seen the small town of Wiarton, ON swallow up several rural townships along with smaller villages and hamlets to become The Town of South Bruce Peninsula. However a growing flyspeck on the map that finds itself with a concentrated population of 2,000 people can reach out to the province and ask to be recognized as a municipality... and just like that, a small town is born.

[@ZontarDow]

@@johnladuke6475 The amalgamations in Quebec in the early 00s and devolution in the late 00s that saw regional governments replace the previous larger cities stemmed from long standing issues of the splitting of costs for joint services.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

A fun side effect of this is that, since multiple townships can be merged into one municipality, you end up with places like the United Townships of Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Eyre and Clyde, Ontario.

[@NoGoodHandlesLeft]

Yup, New Brunswick is reorganizing a lot of its municipalities this year.

[@adiuntesserande6893]

It's things like this that lead to the truly odd municipality of Election District 2, British Columbia. (It's a part of the Greater Vancouver conglomerate, which is quite, but not entirely, similar to Montreal in this aspect.)

[@kindandrespectfulcommenter3292]

Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.

[@kitma9]

so your username is correct

[@RemotHuman]

He doesn't write his own videos

[@drinkspartypack]

@@RemotHuman really?

[@RemotHuman]

@@drinkspartypack I don't think he tries to hide it, a lot of the jokes are aboh that, but I'm also pretty sure I heard him discussing that on his nebula podcast at least a year ago, unless that was someone else.

[@DangNguyen-xx3zi]

@@RemotHuman do you think ONE guy can write, narrate and edit for both Wendover and HAI while publishing Nebula documentaries at the same time?

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

3:59 the town that attempted to only sell homes to Christian is Bay View, MI. It’s in the very northern part of the lower peninsula and it’s a true story.

[@MartyFox]

Bay View is not, in fact, a town. It’s an unincorporated census-designated place. What it does have, though, is a somewhat over-aggressive HOA: all houses in the community are owned by a private Methodist association, which requires you to be a member to live there.

[@TKOfromJohn]

@@MartyFox how Christian of them

[@johnladuke6475]

@@TKOfromJohn Well, you know the saying from the Bible... "Love thy neighbours as long as they make donations to the same Invisible Friend Club as you."

[@alexgomez2731]

@@TKOfromJohn Unironically yeah that is very Christian of them. The Bible quite clearly says to not be unequally yoked

[@sora825]

@@alexgomez2731 I've always heard that line explained to mean "Christians should only marry other Christians". As in "carry the spiritual burden equally" or something like that.

[@ronanmurphy98]

0:04 You hit home a bit too hard there Sam. I almost choked on my quesadilla.

[@juanrivera6207]

I felt personally attacked

[@kubev]

I'd love to have the opportunity to start my own town. I realize there's a very good chance it'd turn out to be a complete disaster, but I'd like to experiment with zoning to create a town in which you could legitimately walk just about anywhere you needed or wanted to go, as well as to ensure that everyone had free access to the basics on some level.

[@Gabrong]

You know, like.. in Europe

[@kubev]

@@Gabrong You still need to use trains and whatnot to get places. I'd like to be able to not step foot in a vehicle at all in most cases.

[@sugoruyo]

@@kubev Most European towns and cities are compact enough that you can get all those things by walking for about half an hour. We use trains and whatnot to travel between cities themselves and between the denser city centre and the outer suburban areas (which are still walkable in most cases). In some countries like the Netherlands you could cycle between cities, if you're so inclined, they provide sheltered cycleways that run parallel to, but at some distance, to their highways. Especially if we're talking towns, I've live in a 200.000 pop. one in England that I could walk from the edge to the centre in about 45 minutes but could access all amenities within 15' walk and it was not an exceptional one either. In fact, people seemed to feel it was too car-centric.

[@WolfSeril107]

I watched this for exactly the same reason. We have enough people just on urbanist youtube to start a major city or several smaller ones.

[@kubev]

@@WolfSeril107 I think it'd be interesting to get together and brainstorm that sort of thing. Not to actually do it, mind you, but just to see what everyone's ultimate goal would be and how they'd go about it. I feel as though getting a bunch of "like-minded" and good-intentioned people together like that without some sort of experience would just result in all of us killing each other. XD

[@RichTiger7]

In Texas, a guy named Carl opened a gas station/convenience store in a rural spot along I-35 and named it Carl's Corner. Then he applied for it to become a town, which he got. So now he gets free advertising from the State of Texas, in the form of those little green signs telling drivers how far it is to the next 3 towns.

[@darkwoodmovies]

That's actually brilliant! Haha hope his business is doign well.

[@TheOriginalJphyper]

There are many, many "towns" in the US already that are not incorporated; they are de-facto towns, but not quite big enough to be officially recognized as such. There's one about a half-hour drive from here that is a popular fishing site. It also has a privately-owned dirt airstrip that is half-jokingly referred to as an international airport (though, since it's known to receive Canadian crop dusters on rare occasions, the label is technically true).

[@benwolff2772]

As a guy from Ohio, I can confirm that we don’t have towns, just different levels of purgatory.

[@EnergeticSpark63]

hey

[@InfinityRedXX]

I live in Ohio. Can confirm.

[@tudorjason]

It's interesting you zoomed in on Washington State. Although Washington has a large number of unincorporated areas as well as areas that are called census designated places, a law was passed in 1990 to actively seek unincorporated areas that should incorporate or be annexed with existing cities. This has caused some cities to balloon in population. The city of Kent grew by 24000 in a year to become the state's 6th largest by annexing a large area on a hill.

[@hollylund4146]

Shout out to Bothell WA for doing the same and becoming a suburban archipelago

[@tudorjason]

@@hollylund4146 Spokane Valley too

[@MastrCake]

Okay, you do realize the Seattle and Starbucks jokes were Sam literally dunking on the Puget Sound region for annexing everything, right?

[@adastra553]

I can’t believe you mentioned the very real Worcestershire town of Upton Snodsbury without mentioning some of its other neighbours, like White Ladies Aston, Throckmorton, and Peopleton

[@vila777_]

throckmorton is real??? i thought it was just a tumblr joke

[@amritlohia8240]

@@vila777_ Yes, it's real. "Throckmorton is a small village and civil parish in the administrative district of Wychavon, in the county of Worcestershire, England. The village lies 3.5 miles northeast of Pershore, five miles north-west of Evesham and 9 miles southeast of the city of Worcester. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 200."

[@voxpopuli8957]

What’s ironic is even though, on paper, Florida is one of the easiest states to incorporate a municipality in, it ends up being one of the most difficult just because of ✨politics✨

[@walterusalbus]

But why

[@voxpopuli8957]

@@walterusalbus People love to argue that incorporation will make taxes go crazy, even though Florida cities both automatically (with some conditions) receive funding from the state and have pretty heavy restrictions on how much they can tax independently even if a municipality does charge it’s own taxes. That’s literally the only decent argument against it and it’s only *sort of* a sensical argument at that.

[@Henchman1977]

I remember trying to get a tow truck many years ago. I was at my friend's house which isn't in a town. Call center agent in Toronto couldn't understand how I wasn't in a town. She litteraly couldn't conceptualize a non-town space between 2 town boundaries. Anyways, had her dispatch from closest town, convinced her the driver would know where I was...

[@simplyepic3258]

I’m from one of the unincorporated non-town towns and I’ve never really known what to call it. Calling it an unincorporated community just doesn’t have the same ring as spreading fake news and just calling it a town. It’s also weird because while it’s technically unincorporated it directly borders 2 actual towns and has just as high of a population density as those towns. It’s basically a contiguous suburban area with those two towns, but for some reason those towns are towns and this one isn’t. And despite it not being a town it’s much nicer and better designed than the bordering towns.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Well, I guess that's a good reason to start your own town. To avoid communication errors.

[@Krydojae]

I am that demographic of "someone who has 30 minutes to eat their lunch and the idea of being alone with their thoughts for longer than it takes to remove their phone from your pocket is too much of a nightmare for their psyche to bear." And I took that in as a lunch I microwaved steams in front of the monitor. feeling attackkedd

[@KruskDerTank]

I’d be interested in a “How to start a School/University”

[@jaquar1957]

“You can cross out Ohio because, well, it’s Ohio” Me, who lives in Ohio: Why does this make perfect sense?

[@nomobobby]

Because if its not a town already, its a village. Never mind that some (probably most) of these are literally

[@hiweirdbot]

Me who lives in ohio: HOW THE HELL DOES IT HAVE 11 MILLION PEOPLE LIVING HERE

[@EebstertheGreat]

@@nomobobby Nah, there are a ton of townships in Ohio that aren't incorporated. Villages are municipalities with less than 5,000 people, and cities are municipalities with more than 5,000 people, but most land is between municipalities and is administered directly by the county. Ohio just doesn't use the word "town" in its constitution.

[@twilson3133]

There is actually a lot of unincorporated land in Ohio

[@president2887]

Ohayou 😽 uWu

[@guilhermetavares4705]

Here in Brazil there are no counties, and all places are divided into municipalities. A new city is only created when another city splits, and in recent years this has hardly been approved. There is even a debate in the federal government about doing away with some small towns that cannot support themselves financially.

[@TheRealDieselKings]

I lived in a subdivision, originally started in part by NASA, that recently became a town. It was a nightmare situation between the homeowners association and the new city. Lots of fighting about who got what money.

[@amberb9701]

“Or you have 30 minutes for lunch break and you can’t part with your phone.” I’m on my lunch break while watching this 😂

I felt attacked 😂

[@alexstauffer3359]

I grew up in Carlsbad, California. They incorporated for the exact reason you gave: to prevent the area from being taken over by its neighboring cities.

[@isaach.1135]

I grew up in a small unincororated "town" in Washington (you really weren't far off). The way it worked, was that it was within 15 miles of the county seat that had the garbage, fire, and police district so the 2.5k or so citezens if this "non-town" payed taxes to the county who serviced the place with public works. Legally, it's called a "Census-designated place" where there's enough population density for something to be there but it's not incorporated. It's weird though as this non town had it's own PUD, fire station, couple of bars and shops, even a coffee shop or two last I checked. It started off as a lumber hub and the main export is still lumber (though a local brewery is starting to pick up pace). The couple folks I talked to there mentioned they don't want this little town to be incorporated as they liked the general freedoms they had to be in the middle of nowhere under the counties guidlines.

[@Del_S]

You need splash potion of weakness and two golden apples, then two zombie villagers, and then throw bread at them whe- Oh, you mean in real life. Okay....

[@wynnexed]

lol

[@WanukeX]

Some Canadian Provinces definetly do. At least I know Ontario does, it’s under sections 171 to 173 of the Municipal Act, 2001 and O.Reg 216/96, if you live in the Unincorporated Territory, you have to give notice of a public meeting in a newspaper that has “general circulation” in the area you want to make a town, you need to have *at least* one other person who lives in the area to show up to the public meeting, so I assume the minimum required population is 2, then if you get majority support to incorporate, you have to submit a restructuring proposal to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. If the Minister says sure they can order it to happen and voila new town.

[@texaspatriot2038]

I've always wanted to start my own city, thanks

[@jtom2958]

There’s actually some benefits in living outside of city limits. I used to live in the Atlanta area where most towns run into each other. Except, in most cases you still have big gaps of unincorporated communities between different metro towns. Even though you’re address and utilities will be part of your nearest town. Anyway, where I lived we had city utilities and everything, but since we were outside of city limits we didn’t have to pay city taxes. Sure we still had county, state, and federal taxes, but just a couple miles down the road and you would have people paying city taxes too.

[@ekairim]

i do remember in history that large corporations could create towns, mainly to support a community for their workforce. main example are mining towns.

[@Radnugget]

They weren't usually incorporated, more of just a bunch of housing near a work site. Though some did become incorporated.

[@isaacmccarty4578]

Awesome video, can’t wait to start my own town!

[@bobjones1290]

town time

[@rejvaik00]

Funny thing is that the: 3:59 _"pass local laws thing to prevent Jews from living there"_ is technically within the power of the those who run the indigenous reservations They do have the ability to flatly deny and discriminate against accepting new residents based upon race How often do they use it? That I couldn't tell you But it is an interesting technicality nonetheless

[@helloguy6913]

As someone from there I believe it is more because of the communities status as a historic sight that allows them to say that. However they could still rent land. Also the rule was changed this past year so it no longer matters

[@stansman5461]

Why would they possibly not allow the Jews to settle there? When has the Jews settling in a place ever ended badly for the residents of said place?

[@syahmiirfan6779]

@@stansman5461 not sure if that's supposed to be sarcasm or a genuine question..

[@stansman5461]

@@syahmiirfan6779 sarcasm

[@joshuasalem5022]

0:30 Moodus isn’t a real town either, it’s a neighborhood in the *actual* real town of East Haddam

[@Sketchitect]

When I clicked on this video I thought that Sam would name his town, Half a Town, or something cool similar to that! Great Video though!

[@moumous87]

0:10 nope, I’m in the bathroom

[@lt.facepalm9566]

samee

[@VinceTaglia]

I want to start a @NotJustBikes town in the US where we copy Dutch city planning and build an actually nice city to live in. Just need to find somewhere to settle!

[@gamermapper]

Also free healthcare and with better police would've been nice too

[@raaaaaaaaaam496]

@@gamermapper there’s no way a municipality could afford free healthcare or manage the increased traffic from people trying to get it.

[@raaaaaaaaaam496]

Just setup as a suburb of a larger town. Or heck even convince a developing survive to secede from a larger cityn

[@SantinoDTOO]

@@raaaaaaaaaam496 Why? When county hospitals were a thing, healthcare actually cared and cost the citizens significantly less.

[@PParsa]

0:44 i forced my parents to do that when i was 5 The battle of "bedroom town" and "living roomstan" was legendary

[@korakys]

"Town" and "municipal government" have practically no relationship to each other where I live (New Zealand). The thought of a town having its own government is a non-starter here, outside of the singular case of Kuwerau.

[@pinnappleman3190]

How does that work? Your city councils can’t pass their own laws?

[@korakys]

@@pinnappleman3190 cities have their own councils but towns are grouped into districts that contain many towns, typically a dozen or so but sometimes more.

[@strider04]

Correction* Moodus is a village and CDP in the town of East Haddam ct, it is not a town itself, and the ghost town he metioned, named Johnsonville village btw, isnt a village or CDP as far as i can tell just a place now in the village of Moodus in the town of East Haddam

[@Mav12able]

In a nautshell to create a new municipality you need, depending on the state for exact requirements: - A minimum population (usually 500) - A petition from residents of the new town. - Approval from a local trial court, county, or state government. Note that in many states trial courts can exercise discretion to approve or deny however they see fit (ie size, percent unused land, plans for what the petitioners will do with the land etc.). There is unsettled case law over moral reasons for creating a new municipality. I.e for racial reasons is forbidden but whether this means a general “proper moral reason” requirement or not is still debatable. - Approval by referendum of the effected population. - Filing with the state government.

[@Arkteckx]

Sam, you are the King. Best videos on the net! Love this one!

[@NathanielHall]

WHO WANTS TO BUILD A TOWN WITH ME?

[@User31129]

DO YOU WANT TO BUILD A TOOOOWWWN?

[@chernoboogaloo]

Me n my buddies back in 9th grade made a plan to start our own town in Oregon, and I'm fairly surprised with how legal that plan may have been (despite its extreme stupidity) seeing as I even found a large bit of unincorporated land, we even asked the teacher if they wanted to invest in it (jokingly, obviously) as it was hundreds of thousands of dollars. It was like 400 acres though I was impressed with the price

[@patsfreak]

Maine has ironically been working in the other direction. Last few decades have seen lots of towns unincorporated themselves because the populations have crashed in the North Woods.

[@SimonTimbers]

I had no clue it was so rare to live somewhere unincorporated. Hopefully it stays that way for me!

[@iliketrains0pwned]

2:41 "You can cross out these states for a new town because they're entirely incorporated..." North Jersey: Ha ha, boroughitis go *_BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR_* _breaks into hundreds of even smaller towns_

[@zack9777]

You forgot the shore was well, from Louch Arbor to Wildwood

[@KlaxontheImpailr]

At last, I can finally found my own town of Beaver Spleen, MB.

[@JohnDoe-jk2do]

2:59 corn

[@epicredhead13]

Storyblocks is a perfect sponsor considering every video is an ad for Storyblocks, demonstrating their content the whole time.

[@coltonscott8051]

3:38 went from 0-100 real quick

[@CoopBurrito]

There is a place in Washington state that is unincorporated, has nearly twenty thousand people living in it, and is surrounded by other cities. It even has petitions out to make it a city, but it's not one yet. It's a census-designated place called Silverdale, and despite pushes from people to make it into a city over the past several decades, nothing has come of it. It's very interesting that it hasn't just been gobbled up by the two cities nearest it or become its own city yet. I'm sure there are other places out there that should be cities but aren't, but this is the first one that came to mind, and I thought it would be interesting to point out.

[@trentenowen5875]

would a floating city be considered a town

[@trentenowen5875]

I completely forgot that I made this comment

[@williamgirard7484]

Moodus is not a town, it is a Village in inside East Hampton, which is town

[@Hchris101]

In Canada 🇨🇦 there equivalent of ‘states’ are called rat baskets.

[@KayDay]

I heard that second guess as I was taking a bite and i legitimately looked around

[@amzfishman1]

Guys, you can't just call me out like that at the beginning, please. It's hard enough trying to figure out why you sound so much like Sam from Wendover.

[@caneighdianjake8439]

I enjoyed the video. Im a bit surprised you didnt mention hamlets, unincorporated municipalities ran by counties, in order to distinguish them from towns, considering hamlets can easily look on the outside as regular towns or even cities. Just to show people how blurred the line between hamlet and town can be, take into consideration the Canadian hamlet of Sherwood Park. With a population of 70,000+ people, the hamlet would be considered the province (the actual name for a Canadian 'state' :P ) of Alberta's seventh largest municipality if it was actually incorporated. Instead, it is unincorporated and run by the local Strathcona county, which has a total population of about 100,000. So over two-thirds of the county live in the single hamlet of Sherwood Park. Its also not like the hamlet spans the whole county, because the hamlet has an area of 71km^2 (27mi^2) vs the county's 1200km^2 (452mi^2). With respect to government representation, it is no surprise that five out of the eight county councilors are elected from within the hamlet. To add to the confusion, though, the leader of the county isnt called a reeve, like other counties in the province, but is officially called a mayor, like in actual towns and cities. It is therefore, no surprise that even many locals dont know that Sherwood Park is a hamlet run by the county instead of an actual town/city (another two municipal categories that have an even less defined distinction :P ) Honestly, who expects a municipality with its own wallmart, shopping mall, cinema and other city luxuries to be a hamlet. :P

[@leakdeo]

Finally, Wendover Heights can be a thing.

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

Wendover Heights does exist. It’s next to Shelbyville and Springfield

[@leakdeo]

oh ok

[@djs06004]

The irony of your intro is great…. Because Moodus is actually not really a town, but part of another town, East Haddam. . .oh CT

[@bcubed72]

If I declare my own property a town, and elect myself sherrif, does that mean my actions in my "town" are then covered by Qualified Immunity? Cool.

[@GobKingYT]

As a Canadian, I am here to say it is provinces and territories, both are basically the same thing

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

0:50 that is a Ukrainian word (Табір /tabir) shown that means camp. It is flattering you have shown a stock video of Ukrainian dictionary, but that doesn't relate to towns at all ...

[@ZNotFound]

A town is just a camp with heavy tents.

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

@@ZNotFound lol. Okay. Ahhaha

[@Florida_Skies]

Can’t wait to start my new town. thanks Sam!

[@Broþar]

Same

[@justfrankjustdank2538]

cant wait till the "like banning jews from living there-" becomes the next great cut off meme in discord

[@gregoryferraro7379]

The city of Centennial in the Denver Metro area was incorporated in 2001 and currently has a population of over 100,000 people, because urban development in Colorado is weird.

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

There just HAS to be a sitcom episode where one of the characters tries to start their own town.

[@Karnbir]

Schitt's Creek is pretty much the same thing

[@ODISeth]

I can finally become Seth from Wendover

[@coke8077]

This dude literally just described my lunch break…

[@Bean-tp7bw]

Same..

[@thedapperdolphin1590]

Allegheny County, which is where Pittsburgh is located, is one of the most fractured counties in the U.S, which is in large part due to the fact that there were little barriers to creating a town back in the day. So we got places like Hahsville, which is only about 70 people and two roads, or Pennsbury Village, which is just some condos that broke away from their suburb to become their own town. Most of the municipalities are unsustainable, and it’s difficult to make county-wide fixes on a lot of issues when you have to go through 130 different municipalities. So most of them should just combine with somewhere else, but people are too stubborn to do that.

[@zaius68]

01:00 states in kingla?

[@ItzzAlooOfficial]

Canada

[@EatingMachine23]

Always enjoy a local reference (sad isn’t it). I live just down the road from Upton Snodsbury and North Piddle ( and even Wyre Piddle), we do have some barmy place names here in England. There is a good brewery in Wyre Piddle with classic beers like “Piddle in the Wind” and “Piddle in the Snow”

[@m1n3craftPCtut0r1al]

PAUSE 0:16 What the fuck is going on with that fence situation?

[@SetOfAllSets]

Lmao

[@maddie9602]

It's odd hearing that unincorporated areas are so rare, considering that most of my home state is unincorporated, especially once you leave the metro area of the one city of any note. Granted, I live in Kansas, but yeah, if I drove from Overland Park to Lawrence or from Lawrence to Topeka or from Topeka off into the sunset because after Topeka, there's _nothing_ until you hit Colorado, I'd mostly be driving through unincorporated farmland. Edit: never mind, the large amounts of unincorporated land in the US was mentioned literally 30 seconds later.

[@0000-z4z]

But you still are part of the country, aren't you? In Germany, there is only one spot, where people live which is unincorporated. It is a former military exercise field. Besides that, we have only unincorporated lakes, some forests and the sea. On the countryside, the lowest level of government is the "Gemeinde" meaning municipality or community. It typically has a few thousand inhabitants and is directed by a council and a mayor elected every six years. Above the is the "Landkreis", which is pretty much what a county is in the US. In cities, that city is basically a Gemeinde and a Landkreis simultaneously, but in the biggest cities, there sometimes are city district councils with some competencies. Waste, water supply and things like that are usually a job for the Gemeinde but they often form associations, which is an organization providing these services for the member Gemeindes.

[@Alexifeu]

My Town would have no Starbucks and all the others besides Starbucks. Apple stuff would be forbidden and we all would just be gamers. Everyone who wants to get Computer parts shall get them at MSRP and no scalpers allowed. Also it would be named Tilted Towers. Rules: No one can hurt someone when they are saying No.

[@ThePlayfarer]

Finally, a mayor of culture.

[@ABoringTool]

Hey just a small correction: You said moodus is a town, which is wrong. I'm a CT resident and it's a census designated village within East Haddam

[@desel8737]

step 1: save the last minutemen from raiders step 2: build some beds and stuff in old buildings to finish the annoying helper quest step 2.5: ignore other settlements in need step 3: destroy everything and gather resources step 4: build your dream town step 5: help other settlements and become the general step 6: rule with an iron fist: turn those who dont fall in line into "chicken" food

[@Saxshoe]

Back in the 19th century New Jersey had BoroughMania, where the state government allowed pretty much any group of people in an existing incorporated town to vote for independence to form their own town. So many wholly enclaved towns, fractured large towns into pieces, towns with almost the same name, and the tiniest towns in the US. If you ever look at a municipal map of NJ don't look too hard or the high spacial borough frequency might give you a seizure

[@MTN1601]

Nice

[@breawycker]

Nice

[@evandiliberto6238]

Very nice

[@antoineczevek-morissette2901]

Super Nice

[@evandiliberto6238]

Giga nice

[@LatestXD]

ultra nice

[@adiuntesserande6893]

In Oregon, you *can* start a town inside another town, which proved to be quite advantageous to the residents of the then-neighbourhood, now-city of Maywood Park when they did so in the '60s to prevent Interstate 205 from being built in such a way as to make them the *ex*-neighbourhood of Maywood Park. Maywood Park is surrounded on all sides by Portland, because it used to be part of Portland. It didn't want to get flattened by I-205, so, when the interstate was in its planning stages, and the State of Oregon ruled that all cities that an interstate was going to run through had to approve of the route, they decided "well, f this!", broke off from Portland, and became their own city simply to veto the planned route. (Spoiler: it didn't [entirely] work. They *did* manage to change the route of the interstate, and get it built below surface level, but they didn't get to stop it entirely.) Fun additional fact: Because Maywood Park was *entirely* residential, being as it was, well, a residential neighbourhood, it didn't have room for that thing that almost all American cities have, namely a City Hall. So, it ended up buying a building to serve as one. It just doesn't happen to be in Maywood Park. It's two blocks down the street, in Portland....

[@ukatoahthecathumanhybrid2272]

"Whatever they call states in Canada." Oh, we call them Provinces and the northern three are called territories, just so you know.

[@Belboz99]

Technically not all states in the United States call themselves "states" either, some call themselves things like "commonwealths".

[@SorenCowellShah]

I think he was probably joking and does know :)

[@wynnexed]

@@SorenCowellShah Yeah

[@ukatoahthecathumanhybrid2272]

@@SorenCowellShah Just for people wondering, not just him.

[@ApolloTheDerg]

This is interesting because I spend my day job working with municipalities across the US. I’ve seen a lot of neat little villages and towns.

[@TheStickCollector]

I want to do this

[@KennyNGA]

If you help me creating an artificial island in europe you can build a town in my dictatorship

[@Diogenes323]

@@KennyNGA i will bring a shovel if I can be a general

[@TheStickCollector]

@@KennyNGA sure, when will this be? I can set up a national band program

[@KennyNGA]

@@Diogenes323 ofc bro you will be my admiral general diogenes

[@KennyNGA]

@@TheStickCollector still in work but i already found sand

[@AICommentator2.0]

Thanks for beeing One of maybe three youtube channels where I even find the sponsored segment funny and interesting

[@lunaargentum1743]

i see this isn't a video for international viewers when only US citizens can start their own town. but you know what? i'll take the free healthcare over starting my own town xD

[@kolomaznik333]

"Free" ... lol ... dream again :D

[@lunaargentum1743]

@@kolomaznik333 as a student in eu country, i assure you, i don't pay a single penny for my doctor's appointments or hospital stay. it all goes from my insurance, that the government pays for me

[@kolomaznik333]

@@lunaargentum1743 "insurace", "goverment pays for me" ... lol .. in other words net taxpayers (and future generations) pay for all of that... surprise it is not FREE. You live on the expense of others. In my country it is called "insurace" but is only to fool stupid people because in reality it is just income tax no.2 not real insurance... and that tax is huge (it is so huge people have quite small net incomes) and has nothing to do with health but only income, which gives people incentives to live iresponsible lives. And also totally drains the budget. Also public medical services are crap and you cannot really pay for optional better service because.. "free socialist healthcare". But if you go to private clinic to get some stuff not paid by "insurance", then look on price then it is quite low. Also if you can compare price of same procedure when in private u pay "by cash" with price "insurance company" have to pay for similar stuff in public "free heathcare" somehow price for "free" is quite higher than "by cash in that evil private clinic" and also "free healthcare prices for medical procedures" are set by govement.. long story short bunch of guys in office of sec. of heatlhcare sets the prices as they want... based on their feelings at the moment I guess, so no competition. One real example: You are parent and you have a little kid with special problem but expensive or expensive and experimental medicine/treatment exist. Forget about it because that is not that "free healthcare" we promised to you and taxed you heavy for. But if you are lucky enough to yourself fundraise milions thanks to ordinary people then the goverment is now interested and you have to raise more and more money because they want more money so they want TAXES from that... Really great system... nice mafia. Or you may try to beg media that your kid is "dramatic enough story for TV" so it may spin public opinion and then goverment, maybe because they want likes on their social networks, then maybe they will for this one special time not place that tax on your kid life... Or if you are even more lucky... they suddenly and miraculously find all the money for that special treatment. But it mut be on TV and their FB, insta, etc.. disgusting! Free healthcare system is so greedy and afraid of competition that you cannot completly renounce "free healthcare" (I dont want it so I dont pay a single penny) and find some real private insurance with lower price and better service because it would show that "free healthcare" is myth.

[@wolfsden6479]

In most us states you can succeed from a town if you pass a threshold, although you instantly create a new "town".

[@stevencooper4422]

3:58 that town is based lol

[@MrMegaManFan]

“Welcome to Ding Dong.” Wait - where’s Oney?

[@salatelmashe6023]

I'm the first one to comment

[@evandiliberto6238]

Far from lol

[@xp7575]

Nope, you were 32nd

[@salatelmashe6023]

what

[@Awakening_Sunshine]

Moodus, CT isn’t a town either. It’s a village in the town of East Haddam

[@sethwakeman9031]

Moodus isn't even a town; it's a village within East Haddam, CT

[@FantasyFlighty]

Connecticut also has the census designated places of Georgetown, which I swear is not a town, and Moosup, to name a few. There’s exactly 169 registered towns, meaning Georgetown will always be a misnomer.

[@daniel06498]

That intro was too personal 😂

[@XZenon]

Happy to hear you mentioning other countries