Sarah Tuttle: I mean, I think this is frequently the case. But it isn't like we have a diverse "it's a small world" collection of these towns across the country.

there is something extraordinarily weird about how you'll be driving through a seemingly relatively normal US state and suddenly there's this patch where everyone apparently thinks theyre in Bavaria or something, even fuckin Frankfurt doesnt have this many German restaurants lined up side by side

My two most recent states, Washington and Texas, have this. Just WHY. Do German immigrants get handed some sort of town plan when they leave?

In the case of Leavenworth, at least, it was a deliberate marketing decision!

I mean, I think this is frequently the case. But it isn't like we have a diverse "it's a small world" collection of these towns across the country.

Only tangentially related, but now I'm thinking about the dinosaur town over on the east side

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