Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA?
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Poor OP. They’re leaving this thread more confused than ever.
The United States is huge and every region has different definitions and expectations of “city”, “town”, “suburb”, “wide place in the road”, etc. LOL, when I was a kid we called Tulsa, OK a “small town”. Well, yeah, as opposed to Chicagoland.
The use of the word definition here should be interpreted as squishy and non-strict.
In most of the world that speaks a more British English, terms like city and town have pretty specific definitions. That’s just not the case in the US. Language is funny, huh?
Village usually means really upscale neighborhood. I have no idea why they’re called that, but they are.
Huh. Californian here, I usually only hear people say “village” when talking about towns in poor countries. (I don’t agree with this.)
Meant to add that, didn’t have the words and you nailed it. Thanks!
My buddy grew up in Omaha. He describes it as being about as big as a few large suburbs.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 days ago
People will start calling their settlement a “village” here when they’ve decided to start being pretentious about it. Expect to find a winery there, or a studio where someone with frizzy hair makes inscrutable physical art, or a bunch of horse enthusiasts.