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Dr. Stephanie@punkrockscience.bsky.social |
New England has so many towns because all the early settlers hated basically everyone else, so their solution to any disagreement was “fuck you, I’ll make my own town then”. For efficiency, they only moved far enough away to glare back at the last guys (and have to clear minimal trees.)
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Sweasel von Trapp
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My favorite example is that in New Hampshire, there's a Derry *and* a Londonderry, right next to each other.
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Dr. Stephanie
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Basically this, but angry Puritans and Congregationalists instead of robots.
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