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Peachtree City, Georgia
A Bizarre Recognition
The idea of “world recogni-
tion” is usually seen as a good
thing. The Super Bowl win-
ners are proclaimed as “World
Champions” as is the winner
of the World Series (although
it really is only a North Amer-
ican Series, baseball being
played in quite a few other
nations). The ultimate prize in
boxing is to be the “Champion
of the World!”
So, it is with great
enthusiasm that
Peachtree City, Ga., has
achieved world status.
The community has
been named as “One of
the Four Most Bizarre
Small Towns in the
World.”
Peachtree City is right up
there with the likes of Whit-
tier, Alaska, which came in
at Number 4, Green Bank,
West Virginia, listed as Num-
ber 3, and Hogewey Village
in Weesp, the Netherlands which captured the top spot.
Whittier is thought to be bizarre because, for the most
part, it is an entire town housed in one building.
Whittier has some 200 residents, almost all of which live
in one 14-story apartment building. Also in the building is
”the local police headquarters and the local post office. All
local government operates out of the building, including
the mayor’s office.
“There’s a laundromat, a grocery store, and a video store.
If you’re looking to get bap-
tized, look no further than the
church in the basement where
the town pastor will dunk your
head in a holy inflatable pool.
If a resident wants to go on a
relaxing stay-cation, they could
stay at the bed and breakfast on
the top floor and soak in all the
exotic sights and sounds of be-
ing in the same place only slight-
ly higher. There’s also a health
clinic ...” and the elementary school is across the street.
Green Bank, W.V., is known as the “town without tech.”
Most modern technology has actually been banned by the
local authorities and the town even has an anti-tech police
force of one.
JULY 2018
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