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Re: UK counties
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Cathy Nicoll
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Oct 23, 2003 02:00 PDT
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The USA and Australia are both a collective of states (call it a union or
federation or what you will). Changing the boundary would lead to a major
consitutional crisis, I suspect.
On the other hand, in Australia we have entities called Shires and
Municipalities, and their boundaries can be changed at the whim of any state
government. In fact, there are Shires undergoing forced amalgamations with
neighbouring Shires right now. Whether or not people care really depends on
how involved they are in local politics!
Cathy
| | Anne said:
| | This must be a win for the Post Office, as I don't think they ever
surrendered the 'traditional' county names and borders
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The Beck said:
| | Do other countries have this problem - do the US state boundaries ever
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change? Or is it only in
| | the UK that we put up with this kind of nonsense?
Beck
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