Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Ten of the World's Most Unusual Towns-- Part 1: Golf Cart City in Florida

From the February 3, 2015, Listverse by Elizabeth S. Anderson.

10.  The VILLAGE OF FLORIDA has a population of 100,000 retired people where most get around on golf carts.  Every year they hold the longest golf cart parade in the world.  According to the Guinness Book of World Records, it once had 3,321.  Children are forbidden.

9.  BUSINGEN AM HOCHRHEIN in Germany.  A German town in Switzerland.

8.  WHITTIER, Alaska.  Most of the 200 residents live in a single 14-story building.

7.  COLMA, California  The town has 1,500 living residents and 1.5 million dead.  73% of the land in the town consists of cemeteries.  It got so big because people can't be buried in San Francisco.

6.  MONOWI, Nebraska.  Founded by Czechs and has just one resident, Elsie Eller, who runs the town's only tavern and library.

Golf Cart Drag Racing?  --DaCoot

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