How the fuck do English counties work?
How the fuck do English counties work?
Does any English person actually understand this shit? Oh yeah this is a ceremonial county, this one's a metropolitan county, oh this one is a ceremonial county and a metropolitan county, but hold on its not a historic county. I mean, a single location seems to be in like at least 5 different locations. Some of them are tied in to some local government, some have seemingly no reason to exist at all?
Say what you will about the US, at least I know where I live. The US does have some confusing shit going on, but I've never experienced anything like this. Every time I try to understand how England works I get "oh yeah no one really understands how it works." There are like 5 different maps all overlapping each other. Does anybody know how this works?
Feel like I'm just staring at like 12 different maps of English divisions going "damn bitch you live like this?"
one thing to remember is that england is very old
without a cultural revolution, you just kinda get these weird ancient things hanging on hundreds of years after they were usefulDamn, if only there was a solution to these problems
And then there is the city vs town distinction, which is solely on royal decree, not self selected or population. There are large towns much larger than small cities.
I’d be remiss not to post Map Men: https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=Whqs8v1svyo
I know I'm losing my mind over this. I'm just trying to understand the counties but there's so much more incoherent shit going on. I can't tell if I just don't live there so I don't understand, or if anyone over there actually understands.
Also more Map Men: https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=hCc0OsyMbQk
ely is my favourite tiny city
it's a cathedral with a small village attached lolThat video was also the first thing I thought of when reading this post.
Its the "genital warts" of an old aristocratic empire.
feudalism, not even once
