myrmepropagandistIs there anything in the USA you would describe with the word "village"
yes in the US there are many villages
don't have those in the US
no one has those NOW
maybe one or two things are "villages" but rare
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Mx Verda@futurebird amish?
Bruce Mirken@futurebird Here in Hawaii we have lots of places I'd call villages.
Michael Busch@futurebird This seems like an extremely NYC question.
Having spent a little time upstate around the Finger Lakes (and other similarly small-village places).
I have lived in a very small town. But I've never seen anything I'd call a "village"
@futurebird I may have different boundaries on the concept.
But I'm not sure what else to call places with a populations of a couple of hundred or less.
John Maxwell@futurebird - I am handicapped by having many relatives in New York State, where "village" is apparently a technical term for some municipalities.
Michaela Sue@jmax @futurebird a bunch of states use it as the legal term for a specific category/type of incorporated area and thus it will be part of the official name of them.
ccampboyle@futurebird village can be a regional term (I think primarily in upstate NY) for something that might be termed the town center in towns in New England. A historic holdover, perhaps? There are also local technical uses, for example certain sub districts of the city of Newton, MA are called villages.
I'm in shock I thought it was just people trying to be needlessly cute.
@futurebird history casts a long shadow in the Northeast.
Jess Cho@futurebird @ccampboyle yeah, one of the places where I grew up was was designated a village. Didn’t realise that was weird until I left New England.
Steve Gisselbrecht@futurebird
In the Boston area, many towns have formed by the merger of different villages but they kept their names. So you can be in the village of Nonamtum, which is in the city of Newton. Pretty much all our named neighborhoods were once separate villages or towns that got annexed.
In the Boston area, many towns have formed by the merger of different villages but they kept their names. So you can be in the village of Nonamtum, which is in the city of Newton. Pretty much all our named neighborhoods were once separate villages or towns that got annexed.
Gaurav Vaidya@futurebird There’s a bunch of villages up in the mountains of Colorado that never had the space or interest to grow into a real town. You could _may_ describe them as very small towns, but that seems inaccurate.
Alexis@futurebird Definitely not the British definition of the word, at least so far as I've seen on the west coast. But, big country, I could be wrong.
gardenpeach@futurebird I grew up in one of upstate NY's many "villages". The intentional community I've lived at for many years is sometimes referred to as an "ecovillage".
Nicole RustA bit kitsch, but … A for effort?
https://leavenworth.org/the-bavarian-village-of-leavenworth/
epicdemiologist@futurebird I live in the Southeast and have never used the word "village" for anything that wasn't a living history site. But I think in New England maybe?
Anthony Horton@futurebird Interesting. As someone who grew up in the UK but moved to Australia almost 20 years ago I noticed that this is one of the differences between British English and Australian English, too.
In the UK any settlement below a certain size would be called a village, or in extreme cases maybe even a hamlet.
In Australian every settlement smaller than a city is a town unless it consists of only 3 or 4 buildings, in which case it might be called a locality instead. When the word "village" is used in Australia it's usually as part of the name of a strip mall in a tourist destination.
Tergenev has moved@futurebird
Damascus, Ohio, population 418.
Ben Rosengart@futurebird sure, I grew up around Greenwich Village
Michael BaconOkay seriously, one of the things I learned doing field work in rural Scotland is that "village" means a small collection of shops. Someone who lives in a small town may say "I'm going down to the village to do some shopping."
Because it's in my mind because of the news, I'm thinking of "downtown" Chimney Rock, NC, which was obliterated by Helene. In the UK that'd have been called a village.
Speaking of "downtown" . . .
Near as I can tell "downtown" is a generalized Manhattanism, which is kind of funny. Like this place on the side of US 64 deep in a river gorge in the southern Appalachians is, from what I can tell, adopting a name given to one of the densest areas of the US . . . a portion of which is locally known as "the village."
I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!@futurebird plenty of them up here in Northern New England.
Generally a secondary smaller “town center” within a larger town, but culturally distinct. Often just a village green, general store, church, and maybe a restaurant, sometimes a bit more.
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@steve @futurebird Agreed about many of them having become sections of larger cities as they grew. Multnomah Village in Portland and Montclair Village in Oakland are good examples.
Eric R. Scott@futurebird I think maybe some indigenous communities in Alaska are officially "villages"? (That could be outdated info)
Barry Goldman@futurebird no... they all got stretched out onto route 9s full of mcdonalds
@futurebird i've not met too many cities except for nyc either
america doesn't like these things. possibly never has
George Dinwiddie@futurebird We call them “small towns.”
Chris Hayes@futurebird in my mind—if it doesn't have a Dunkin, it's probably a village.
A Pond Full of PeepersI live in New England, in a small town that is made up of five distinct, legally-designated villages. The entire town is around 2,000 people. Oh and one half of one village is in one town and the other half is in the neighboring town.
Cecelia@futurebird I think of them as small shopping centers with “Village” in the name.
I village in the other sense suggests to me a place that doesn’t have police and was primarily built before modern construction standards.
yomimono, still on land@futurebird Wisconsin is riddled with them, both in the “legal designation of place” sense and the “cozy little town with one shop” sense. admittedly the one shop is a gas station, but you can frequently find old people gossiping in there so I think it counts
llewelly@futurebird if the USA has no villages, where do all those villains come from?
Citoyen européen Ray Hindle ✔️@futurebird Size wise, most of the cities in the Midwest are no bigger than a European village!