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Group: alt.startrek · Group Profile
Author: Wickeddoll®
Date: May 22, 2008 11:05

"Forge"
> says...
>>> Either way, that's an inaccurate description of the "Winter" cities.
>>
>> They're suburbs. It's painfully obvious just looking at a map.
>>
>> They may not have started that way but that's not uncommon.
>
> Uh-uh. A "suburb" is an area still governed by that city. Winter Park
> and Winter Haven (which is MILES AND MILES from the edges of Orlando)
> each have their own city council and their own distinct borders. Winter
> Park was founded only a decade or two after Orlando was officially
> called Orlando. And of course, at that time they were MILES apart, but
> both grew until their borders touch in the vicinity of the old Naval
> Training Center (which is now a giganto development of condos and
> townhomes, naturally).
>
> Orlando's "suburbs" include Colonialtown and an unofficially-declared
> "Little Saigon" near downtown, College Park to the north of downtown,
> and yeah, Pine Hills to the west. A tick further west and you're in
> Apopka, and that too is a separate municipality.
>
> Please note that saying something is so, over and over again, does not
> make it so. Thanks.
>
LOL

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