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Thinking about the "sister city" thing following a radio piece, and about how it seems pretty meaningless in many cases.

I had no idea where Ottawa's sister city is. It never seems to be mentioned nor celebrated here. Turns out we have two – Beijing and Catania.

Presumably it's supposed to foster trade and tourism relationships, but I suspect beyond an initial announcement, it usually fades into obscurity.

Does your city celebrate and build on a sister city relationship?

#SisterCity

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Chris Geoghooligan ✊4d ago

@ottaross ours apparently are Dundee, Scotland & Helsingborg, Sweden! I never knew!

Also, there’s a good episode of Parks & Rec (season 1 or 2) where officials from Pawnee’s sister city in Venezuela come to visit and are appalled at how awful Pawnee is. It’s pretty good.

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Ross of Ottawa 4d ago

@VTDARKSIM Nice - sounds like it would be worth a visit.

Keep thinking I need to watch Parks & Rec, never managed to have the right streaming service to binge it.

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Chris Geoghooligan ✊4d ago

@ottaross we’re actually headed to Scotland in Aug, might need to see if we can make a detour from our itinerary.
Parks & Rec is on Peacock now, which we only have because of our Instacart subscription, which we only have because of our Wegmans grocery service, which we only have because we’re lazy. Otherwise I would not pay for any of those things. If you do end up watching it though, it really blossoms after the 1st 2 seasons.

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Ross of Ottawa

@VTDARKSIM Sounds like a great potential add-on for your trip.

Good to know about P&R!