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Your Topic is to Locate a new Location for a Political Capital for North America Where would put it?

#1 User is offline   jdeegan 

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Posted 2012-March-29, 05:12

:P Relocate the political capital of North America. Where would you put it?
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Posted 2012-March-29, 05:55

View Postjdeegan, on 2012-March-29, 05:12, said:

:P Relocate the political capital of North America. Where would you put it?

Montreal, then we wouldn't hear "He speaks French" as an insult :)
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Posted 2012-March-29, 06:26

Venice Beach, CA
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Posted 2012-March-29, 06:26

Give it to Port-au-Prince, they need the business badly.
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Posted 2012-March-29, 06:56

View PostCyberyeti, on 2012-March-29, 05:55, said:

Montreal, then we wouldn't hear "He speaks French" as an insult :)

Would New Orleans have the same effect?
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Posted 2012-March-29, 08:35

View Postjdeegan, on 2012-March-29, 05:12, said:

:P Relocate the political capital of North America. Where would you put it?

I'd leave it where it is.
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Posted 2012-March-29, 08:41

View Postjjbrr, on 2012-March-29, 08:35, said:

I'd leave it where it is.


How cryptic ..
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Posted 2012-March-29, 08:52

Speaking as a Westerner... anywhere on the east coast is fine with me. Keep the hot-air pollution downwind of the rest of the continent, thank you very much.
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Posted 2012-March-29, 11:01

View PostAberlour10, on 2012-March-29, 06:26, said:

Venice Beach, CA


Nah. 150 due west from there.
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Posted 2012-March-29, 11:15

The country is so polarized these days, do we need two capitals?

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Posted 2012-March-29, 12:00

Flint, MI.

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Posted 2012-March-29, 12:09

Centered on the 3-way intersection of Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri
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Posted 2012-March-29, 12:19

View PostTrinidad, on 2012-March-29, 12:00, said:

Flint, MI.

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Posted 2012-March-29, 13:11

Is Three Mile Island an option or has it been cleaned up now?
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Posted 2012-March-29, 13:22

I've always been fond of the idea of putting it in the geographical center of the 48 contiguous states — which is somewhere in Kansas, iirc. I think we should build a new "capital city", and then leave it empty. Send all the politicians, lobbyists, and bureaucrats home, with a "thanks, now go find a real job" letter. :P
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Posted 2012-March-29, 13:35

View Postwyman, on 2012-March-29, 12:19, said:

Fitting, since if we removed the government from DC, it would be the next Flint, MI.

The only way this could actually happen is if DC became the next Chernobyl.
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Posted 2012-March-29, 14:11

barmar: what country? Or are we just the US' hat IRL, too?
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Posted 2012-March-29, 14:36

My first choice was somewhere in Alaska, but as finance matters stand, it must be sold to China within few decades
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Posted 2012-March-29, 20:45

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I think we should build a new "capital city"

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My first choice was somewhere in Alaska, but as finance matters stand, it must be sold to China within few decades


In Alaska we tried building a new capital city from scratch in the 1970s. Discovered it was very expensive, and gave up before we got very far.

The owner of one of our bridge clubs lost so much money in the ensuing land speculation fiasco that he was working into his 80s rather than retiring.
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Posted 2012-March-29, 21:46

Why do we need a capital? Why not just do everything via teleconference? It would keep our representatives in better contact with their home districts (i.e. they could actually live there), and maybe they could also work more than three days a week... Plus it would save money.
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