Vw From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 251 posts, RR: 1 Posted (11 years 6 months 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 1728 times:
In July I drove to Winnipeg, MB from Iowa. At the border I got my picture taken at a small metal post on the true border. As I looked East and West I could follow the border with the farm field fence. Well my question is if you owned the land on both sides of the border could you build a house that is on the border of the two countries?
Bombstar From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (11 years 6 months 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 1676 times:
If you owned property on both sides, they'd have a seperation space no matter what, if you could easily do that, then you could open your own border to the other side.
But at one of the thousand islands in Lake Ontario, I do recall two privately owned islands connected to each other via bridge, and the islands were on opposite sides of the country.
Airplanenut From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 649 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (11 years 6 months 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 1664 times:
Double the taxes!!!
Actually, something like that happened in the US bet. Connecticut and Mass (I think). The family pays taxes to both states, but neither will let them use the schools... heheheh
Phlflyer From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 851 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (11 years 6 months 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 1653 times:
Several years ago I saw a documentary on the Canadian-American Border. Somewhere on the Eastern Border there is a small town that straddles the border with several houses that actually have the U.S./Canada border running through the middle of the house.
One house had a family with 3 Canadians and 1 American.
Bombstar From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (11 years 6 months 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 1644 times:
Yeah, i must have been mistaken then
I once saw two islands in lake ontario (different countries) privately owned islands, connected by bridge. It was a cheap wooden bridge no more than 10ft long, probably built by the owners. It had a Canadian and American flag painted on it side by side. The tour operator called it the worlds shortest international bridge, but i dont know if this is true.
Docpepz From Singapore, joined May 2001, 1938 posts, RR: 3 Reply 7, posted (11 years 6 months 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 1640 times:
In Jeffrey Archer's latest novel of short stories, there was an interesting story about a house on the border of Northern Ireland and The Republic of Ireland.
Delta-flyer From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 2676 posts, RR: 7 Reply 8, posted (11 years 6 months 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 1634 times:
There is a tavern that straddles the border between NY and Quebec. There is a line painted on the floor, sort of diagonally across the room, running right under a pool table, with Quebec, Canada on one side and NY, USA on the other. The picture of this is in a large coffee table book called "Between Friends".
N949WP From Hong Kong, joined Feb 2000, 1437 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (11 years 6 months 3 days ago) and read 1631 times:
If I recall correctly, didn't they put the bar on the Canadian side of the tavern since Canada has a lower drinking age than the US? I believe they put something else on the US side of the building as that item is taxed more heavily in Canada.
Mls515 From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 3069 posts, RR: 9 Reply 10, posted (11 years 6 months 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1624 times:
Vw-
Holy $hit! You sound like my clone or something. I too have an interest in this sort of thing. I too got my picture taken on the US/CAN border last July which included driving to Winnepeg from Iowa. Craziness!
To answer your question, no, you would not be allowed to build a structure over the border. But as mentioned above, there are already some structures that do stradle the border so I guess they're grandfathered in.
Delta-flyer From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 2676 posts, RR: 7 Reply 11, posted (11 years 6 months 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 1601 times:
I found the book I mentioned earlier -- used starting at $30 or a new special edition for $595:
Lorraine Monk: Between Friends, first published in 1976 as a bicentennial gift from Canada to the USA
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