United Gates of America
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- loahn
Did anyone catch this on BBC4 this month [repeated last night].
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/doc…
A very disturbing insight to a rising trend of gated cities popping up around America - completely self-sufficient microcosms of cities with their own laws et al...
This documentary is about Canyon Gate in California.
The nearest equivalent I can think of is Wapping, East London - though to my knowledge, residents there still abide by the same british law as the rest of us.
- TheBlueOne0
Welcome back to the aristocracy..we're heading back to the 16th century:
http://economistsview.typepad.co…
Get your serf on..
- Teeuwen0
here they are really castles..
- jamble0
I watched it the other night when it was on, it was sort of interesting but at the same time didn't really seem that absurd to me as I grew up on a military base of a similar size.
The scariest thing was that woman who got elected the residents board.
- TheBlueOne0
You guys ever read Neil Stephenson's "Snow Crash"?
- mrdobolina0
as if the burbs werent lame enough.