This US City Could Be Sold To Canada
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- Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2020
- Point Roberts may be sold to Canada. In fact, Point Roberts, WA is only part of the US due to a mapping error that occurred when America’s borders were being made. Now, the recent border closure has many residents trapped. Come with us as we explore this unique accident and the fascinating community that came from it.
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What do YOU think should happen?
Bye Felisha.... But really, this community needs help RN
Angle Inlet is in the same situation. Small piece of the U.S. surrounded on three sides by water and the fourth is Canada.
Canada should annex it. Turn the green lands into a park. Put in protects to make sure people's property taxes don't go up.
Washington State should run one of its ferries there until the border reopens.
Whatever the residents want, if they want to join Canada, then welcome! If not, well, then all the best in the US.
Can you imagine:
Birth Certificate: Point Roberts, USA
Death Certificate: Point Roberts, Canada
Without ever leaving!
There used to be a time when that was quite common for border regions. They would change hands more than once in fact.
Born: Moscow, USSR
Die: Moscow, Russian Federation
There is this joke about a hungarian city called Ungvár (uzhgorod now).
-My grandmother was born in Hungary, went to school in Czechoslovakia, married in the Soviet Union and passed away in Ukraine.
-She liked to travel then?
-No, she never left her hometown of Ungvár!
that's true of a lot of places. You could be born in Tonj, Sudan, and die in Tonj, South Sudan, due to a new country forming there in 2011. You could be born in Moscow, Russian Empire, in Moscow, Soviet Union, due to a change in national government in 1922. There are actually a surprising number of ways that could happen once you think about it.
Usual thing in Europe. Person born in 1918. Split, Austro-Hungary, than royal Yugoslavia, later Italy, than fascist Croatia, than communist Yugoslavia, than democratic Croatia...
"Since I'm on camera, I never go across."
I feel that.
you know that guy knows he knows.
😂
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Growing up by the us/canada border we used to frequently cross the open border. I haven't done that since 9/11 though
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Visiting Point Roberts had always been on my bucket list after I started traveling for work back in the late 1980s. I was working near Delta, BC back in 2018 and always wanted to visit Point Roberts. I found it surreal when I crossed the border being a US citizen. Point Roberts was quaint and charming. I’m glad I had a chance to visit! Godspeed to all the residents of Point Roberts!
Glad you were able to visit! It really is a fascinating place
One of the things that has prevented Point Roberts from becoming Canadian is that the fishing rights in the water around it are what is valuable. While the US does not appear to highly value the land, it is the fishing rights they value. A deal could be proposed to sell the land to Canada and keep the fishing rights, however Canada had taken the position, that unless they end up with the fishing rights, they are quite prepared to keep the status quo.
How about shared fishing rights?
@Mr. Cub Fan 415 why should they have a slice?
I think competition between US and Canadian fisherman would get complicated with different fishing regulations between each country.
Canada should give them dual citizenships. Easier solution. Best of both worlds. Less problems.
Forget it ! No way will it ever become part of Canada.
It’s not a question of whether or not Canadians like you, Covid is the reason why the border is closed.
@Ginger '- ')! What.
Actually.... Canada had the foresight to allow Americans to travel to Alaska by car (For essential travel, and are not allowed to use hotels, restaurants, etc) so its still puzzling why Canada has not made some exceptions for Point Roberts considering its only 30 min from US mainland......
@@Makoto778 yeah really good point man. I’m not really sure why. Probably because they assume that as soon as they allow people to make the trip, then others will start making their supply trips for things that are definetly not essential like grocery and gas
I think they're referring to the fact that Canada has enforced closing the border even when America was ready to reopen it.
@@RainAngel111 yea you’re right that’s what they’re saying but covid is the reason Canada does not want to reopen. The US is on another covid level and Canada doesn’t want to deal with that
eh! put those berries back, you didn't pay duties on that agricultural produce.
heheheheh
I guess you would have to regurgitate them on the border.
@@OfftheCuff_Series in Canada we laugh like this:
eheheheheh :)
Blackberries? They're a weed that takes over everything. A very tasty weed, very good for canning and juicing, but a weed none the less.
@@BlackEpyon Can you smoke it?
If it isn't mentioned somewhere in these comments, geographically speaking, there is a similar situation with Minnesota's Northwest Angle, an area at the northernmost tip of Minnesota that is also surrounded by water and Canada.
Hot n heavy!
and vermont
Living in South Delta for 30 years I used to go to Point Roberts a couple times a month for mail and petrol. In the 70's and early 80s PR was a rocking place on Sundays when bars were closed in B.C. The Breakers used to have great live music and the The Reef tavern was a funky hangout. Every Sunday evening hundreds of hammered Canadians would head north to home through the border, but I don't recall there being a severe drunk driving problem. Loved Clark's store on the east side.
Im from Vancouver and totally forgot how the border closure must've affected our friends in Point Roberts. I would have thought the Government certainly made some exception. That really sucks.
Interesting isn’t it?
@@OfftheCuff_Series Yeah, they need to pass through Canada to get to school in mainland Washington (so I've read). I always thought they ought to just go to school in Tsawwassen or something, but I guess Americans don't want a Canadian education, which makes sense for some subjects. Plus there's the issue of taxes, although there are so few people in PR I don't think it'd be that bad for Canada to just give the services for free, as a Canadian I wouldn't complain.
@@venus_envy It's not that Americans don't want a Canadian education, it's simply a legal problem.
us gov should have made arrangements for water delivery of supplies and needed people / issue resolution
Government is never that effective for logical exceptions.
"It doesn't seem like a very American thing to let this go."
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up
@Rumpel Felt derangement syndrome
@Rumpel Felt Please don't bring politics into this.
@Rumpel Felt He's a political figure.
@Rumpel Felt nice burn
@crazy silly but now they complain that he should of close the border fast also they complain when he is "not doing enough" and complain when he dose to "much"
I'm from Washington and for about 11 years my family would vacation in the San Juans for a weekend to a week. I've never been to Point Roberts but every time I saw it on the map I just couldn't believe that we ever separated the land like that.
I lived in Delta as a teen, the city that borders Pt. Roberts. When my friend got his driver's licence, we'd drive down there at least once a month. Gas was a lot cheaper in the US at that time. That was always fun. We'd go for a half-hour drive from our neighbourhood down to the border. They'd ask us the purpose of our trip. "Getting gas" was the answer, and hundreds of other people did it too. We'd fill up, go to the grocery store and get some American chocolate, maybe drive down to the water and check out the scenery, then head home. I like the anomoly of having Pt. Roberts right there, but, I really think it should just be Canada. It seems like a silly oversight that it's the USA.
Wow, Auntie Pam gave up 85 people in the witness protection program in one fell swoop. Yikes!
😂
Very dumb
If there were actually anyone in the witness protection, Pam would not be let in on the secret.
Yes, I was going to say something about that too. Maybe Canada shouldn't buy Point Roberts. "Loose Lips Sink Ships".
Don't tell Tony Soprano.
Why don't they just start a ferry service to mainland USA?
So many isolated islands have them in other places.
@@AdamDavid But it's not open water, it's in a large inlet, it would be rough in storms but no rougher than the Foveaux Strait between the South Island of New Zealand & Stewart Island, which IS open water on both sides, the Southern Pacific Ocean & the Tasman Sea, with the Southern Ocean being all that lays south of Stewart Island, until you hit Antarctica. The daily ferry between Stewart Island & the Mainland serves about 1000 locals too, with all that entails, plus the holiday & tourist numbers. Foveaux Strait is recognised as even rougher than the Cook Strait, the strait between the South & North Island, which is easily among the world's roughest ferry crossings on a bad day, which occasionally from time to time even ferries big enough to carry trucks & trains cant cross. It would be very easy to have a daily ferry crossing from Point Roberts to WA, it's no different from any other island with a residential population.
Or they should just be given Dual Citizenship so they can live and work in Canada while still being American & able to live in affordable homes. As a person living in a country with a wild property bubble myself, where the median has gone up nationally 16% THIS YEAR I can appreciate why they would like to keep speculative development to a minimum.
They did establish a ferry during the pandemic but it only goes something like twice a week
@@AdamDavid New Zealander here.. While it may seem to an American that we have socialist ideals, that's only in comparison to America, which is the western outlier when it comes to extreme capitalism. What Americans call normal capitalism, is extreme hyper-capitalism compared to every other western country where things like public health, sick pay, maternity leave etc are the norm. But NZ is actually one of the most Neoliberal countries in the western world. With a major housing affordability crisis, rising inequality, wages well below the rate needed for our insane living costs, & many systemic issues due to the last 35 years of Neoliberalism. We own very few assets now, infrastructure, food distribution, etc. For eg as a country, we have to compete with export markets for dairy prices despite us only being 5% of our own market. So that in a country with the 5th largest dairy production in the world, a 1kg block of cheese is $17nzd, that same block of cheese is $9.40nzd in Australia in the same supermarket chain. (Fonterra, the private/farmer co-op owned NZ dairy multinational makes a killing). Then there's housing, we haven't had significant social housing built in 40 years due to an obsession with Neoliberal market policies, with 2 thirds of all individual investment pumped into housing, & now we have a massive housing availability & affordability crisis amid an out-of-control property bubble where houses have gone up nationally by 16% THIS YEAR, on top of 100% rises in many places in less than 10 years. Auckland is passing $1M median house price, more expensive than Melbourne. & due to the Neoliberal status-quo, those absolutely insane & consolidated gains are tax-free because we still don't have a capital gains tax, a property tax, or stamp duty, as crazy as that sounds.
As for privatisation, we were already very Neoliberal, then in 2007 we had an ex US-Fed banker for a Prime Minister, & all the last remaining power companies were sold, & as far as national assets go, they were among the last remaining. Other than those that had been renationalised after previous privatisation resulted in asset stripping (Kiwirail). Or Air NZ which was privatised, bailed out & bought back & built up to the reputable brand it became, then sold again, then re-nationalised again this year to save it from Covid collapse. A huge number of assets were sold in the 80s & 90s, then after 2007, & now very little is state-owned. The first ferry mentioned, between Stewart Is & South Island, is run by a council-owned holding Co. The 2 Ferry Cos between the North & South Is, despite being such critical infrastructure for inter-island twice daily freight, one is public/private, & the other is private owned.
So yep, definitely not a socialist paradise. We can't even pass a capital gains tax, can you imagine how much profit has been consolidated when people have made 500% profit on homes in 20 years, and those 500% gains untaxed? With negative gearing on-top of that, & no rent control. We may have a version of universal health, but it pales in comparison to Australia's, & that of Europes. And the previous conservative govt ripped $16 Billion in funding out of the health system to pay for further tax cuts for the rich, so that we only have 160 ICU beds for the whole country.. Back to the ferry, if a council-owned ferry can operate daily to serve about 1000-2000 locals & tourist traffic, in a country as Neoliberal as ours, then Point Roberts can easily do the same..
The State Government is abandoning their responsibility to the residents of Pt. Bob. I am quite certain there are lots of suitable ferries in the WA Ferry fleet. I am surprised ferry service isn't legally mandated.
2 times on Tuesday and 2 times on Friday...weather permitting.
As a former resident of Washington and current resident of BC, they need to start a ferry between Blaine and point Roberts. This will really help students, provide tourists and easy access to goods and services
Great idea!
Having watched the video, I did wonder why they have done that, having said that I don’t know what the journey time would be ?
Exactly!!! WA State wake ip, don’t forget your people!!!!
“Colloquially known as "the Slash," this border vista is a 20-foot-wide (6.1 m) man-made cut-through of forestland maintained along areas of the border with dense forestation. There are many different sections of the vista, and the total length can vary depending on cycles of maintenance and upkeep, but an approximate length of 1,349 miles (2,171 km) has been reported by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS).”
@Guitarzen Yh, they are known as Enclaves
Can't believe that the state of Washington just... Doesn't run ferries out to this town?
when driving is an option ferries are not worth the expense.
Why not build a bridge?
@@Bubbleguts1964 that would cost way to much money and the distance from the mainland is to much for it to be worth it.
Bruhden Egressive That makes sense, Thanks 👍
Whatcom County is running an emergency ferry service to Bellingham until the border reopens. There are two trips in both directions on Tuesdays and Fridays, weather permitting. Crossings take two hours.
Soon on another channel: how a youtuber causes a Corona outbreak in Point Roberts
High key
@Daniel Chang did he really
One Spanish national lied to South Australian CV contact tracing team member and sent 1.7 million people (an entire state) into a complete lockdown for 3 days until the lie was discovered. What is so amazing about a single youtuber causing an outbreak in a town of just over 1,000 people? There is 4 times that amount in quarantine in Adelaide, SA because on one git.
@@suelynch It was a joke.
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In the island of Ireland the international border between the Republic of Ireland and the UK can be crazy. There are people who have to cross the border to get from their house to their mailbox- their garage is on one side but their driveway crosses over the border when they take their car out. One side is in the European Union and the other is not.
Nicely done video. I certainly enjoyed it.
“ we have had 80, 85 people here in witness protection” I don’t think you’re supposed to talk about it😂😂
there isn't a safer place in America. Think about it. If you're an assassin or the mob and you've been hired to murder someone in witness protection chances are you've already got a record and aren't allowed to cross the boarder, let alone doing it four times in a day. And even if you managed to somehow pull it off, all they need to do is go through the very short list of people who crossed the point roberts boarder that day to narrow down their suspects.
@@FablestoneSeries because assassins check in at border crossings that can be walked across.
@@MrBeard17 ignoring the fact that they would first need to cross into Canada. As someone who has walked across that border before its easier said than done.
@@FablestoneSeries Or boat across like the video makers did. Point being; if your there under witness protection, the secrecy of the location is whats protecting, not the border.
@@MrBeard17 That would make it even easier to track the person. No travel to or from Point Roberts, by land sea or air gets over looked. You might be successful in killing your target, but the chances of you getting away without getting caught are nearly zero, and if your job is to kill a witness you don't want to get caught and implicate your boss in the process. I used to know the border guards there pretty well. Nothing gets passed them. Its as secure as any prison.
I can't imagine living in a town that doesn't have pharmacies or medical care. It just seems so inconvenient no matter how lovely the place is.
No need for those things when they were always readily available by simply showing a passport.
I say sell it... use it to pay for rest of southern border wall... we would save money on all the extra resources and de incentivize trafficking and smuggling by cartels... 30 %+ young women and girls are raped ... so need to stop now. Plus elsalvador is arresting gangs in record number. So other countries could follow in south America.
@@Teodede Not really, I live in a town just as small and we have a clinic, ambulance service, a volunteer fire dept, a vet, a pharmacy, a school, 2 dentists, 1 grocery store, 1 bar, 1 pizza joint etc. There is no excuse for them not to have any of that stuff. Huge opportunity for someone ambitious
I mean I have not went to medical care in 5 years and I have not gotten sick or died I just sucked it up.
lol thats most literally most cities in rural united states lol. my uncle and aunt have to drive half hour to nearest grocery store and they dont even live that far from the capital city in mn there only a hour out
I visited Point Roberts during a vacation trip to the great northwest. I was really surprised when buying gasoline in Point Roberts. Gasoline was sold by the liter, not gallon. As far as I know, it is the only city in America that sells gasoline by the liter.
Unbelievable high quality for your sub count. wow. Keep it up!
I love how all this planning between governments happens with a global pandemic, yet they can't figure out how to allow citizens like this to travel to their own country/state.
There are too few votes in Point Robert for those have the political power to make that happen.
You spelled PLANdemic wrong.
How much do you really, really "love" it? Tell us!
The whole point of the plan-demic was to stifle individuality and personal choices. Socialists believe that the 99% who are "beneath" them are too "uneducated" to make their own decisions.
@@jcjko5504 actually not really
It's an issue that should be specifically voted on in just the one community.
The one it impacts.
Let the people that live there choose.
I’m Canadian and love the fact that Point Roberts exists, it is just such a unique piece of geography that feels like a far away land just down the street.
That area and Whatcom county made millions in the eighties when Canadian pubs and some restaurants were closed on Sundays. I had a "rancho" in Whatcom in Custer, and my young friends would come down on Friday even. or Sat. a.m., do the ranch thing, chop wood, outdoors stuff. and stay over to Sunday, and drag ourselves back over the border to work Sunday p.m. or me, Monday early a.m. It was great. For both sides.
@ariel kyloan wow you Americans are so cool
@@jackdonnelly4166 love Canada and Canadians . Good to see people in masks . they respect rules. I am American
im Canadian aswell
@Tommy Thomson At least our leader doesn't think climate change is a hoax LMAO.
Never knew the real estate prices was such a difference from one side of the border to the other. That was wild.
Great video! Pt. Robert’s is a small village sandwiched between Seattle and Vancouver and forgotten as if it were a middle child as the bigger cities fight homelessness, drugs and crime in the COVID era. Pt. Robert’s withers on the vine.
"Are you meeting someone from Canada...?" "Nah, just meeting my pot dealer..."
These busy bodies with a camera. Uhg, no weed today! 😆
Lol
Why would you need a dealer in WA? Pot is legal and you can buy it at an actual pot shop.
@@redtango76 Pot is legal, federally, in all of Canada.
@@redtango76 It's cheaper in Canada...? Prescription drugs are legal in the USA, but that doesn't stop bus loads of seniors going to Canada/Mexico, to buy them!
As someone who lives on the Canadian side of that border, I am outraged what the Canadian and American governments have done to my friends and neighbours in the Point.
Thanks for sharing your perspective! Would you normally go to Point Roberts often?
why are you so sensitive
@@christophercolumbus8944 As I said earlier, the governments don't give a damn.
@@stephenkammerling9479 There are several communities that could make a good case for exceptions. Writing those exceptions into law and not having the entire country try to exploit these exceptions would be rather difficult.
@@LifesLaboratory I agree there. Sometimes, usually in exceptional cases, they should just look the other way. That's too much to ask for your typical "rules are rules" beaurocrat.
Campobello Island NB had the same sort of issues but they had an exception to return to the mainland to get basic services.
We have a video about Campobello on our channel as well 👍
Great content! Have you considered going to Derby Line, Vermont? They have a library that’s half in the US and half in Canada.
Another interesting place is Lloydminster, Alberta…or is it Lloydminster, Saskatchewan?
Off the Cuff: "Get rich of what?"
Guy Eating Mic: "GOOD EVENING MEMBERS OF COUNCIL"
"Practicing his oral skills for later."
When I was a radio repair sergeant in the US military we had a continual problem with horribly garbled comm from certain individuals.
I was able to leverage: "we can't sanitize these microphones" and the fact that all of the hardware was randomly reassigned each time.
After a few off-hand suggestions that "who knew what STD's you could get off our frequently used microphones" and suddenly everyone was holding the microphones away from their mouths
well lets see the house sales guy could make 600k per house extra commission is why ... 10% of 800k is way better than t 10% of 200k and with the open nature of it all that 800k is the starter price ... it just goes up from there
They should visit to northwest angle and make this a series
Just thinking the same thing when I ran across your post. Very similar.
I actually walked in here assuming that this was going to be the place they were speaking of. I was unaware of other places being like this and in a similar situation.
I think there was a news article about a border town in northwest Canada with a similar problem.
Add in Hyder in Alaska and it should be a nice trilogy. Technically you can get to Hyder without crossing the border, but the only road there goes through Canada.
I think there's a town in Maine cut in half by the border where the locals just ignore it.
I live in WA State and can say that although I have always heard of point roberts, I have never been. Why? Mainly because it is incredibly inconvenient to get to. Now, it is basically impossible to get to since covid hit. Nice documentary Cuff team
I wonder, would it be possible to trade the land for a similar amount of land somewhere else in Canada?
People have made that argument. One of the laces that people say would be a fair trade is Campobello Island in New Brunswick. It is landlocked with the Northern Coast of Maine. They have a very similar situation there, except for it being the opposite of Point Roberts.
"I can buy a condo and a villa in Tuscany". Auntie Pam has no idea about house prices in Tuscany...
if she really earned a couple millions from her real estate sale, minus a 600.000 $ for the condo on the mainland (she meant US mainland I think), 1,4 million dollars (around 1,1 million euros I guess) are enough to actually buy a pretty decent real estate in Tuscany. For comparison, a 70 sqm condo on tuscan seaside is around 300.000 € all included. I don't think money would be the issue there, maintenance would be worse probably.
@@LoreIlMegio I guess that depends on the definition of „villa“. Condo for 300k maybe but not a nice one. A couple of millions usually for a villa.
@@tobiwan001 yes, I guess too, but I don't think she had a big villa in mind, or did she? Anyway, small but really nice villas could be find for that price tag if you look for them carefully, especially the renovation needing ones that could come cheap and then be renovated for a reasonable price.
@Ginger italy has a fascist past, the US has a fascist present.
@@tobiwan001 I'm pretty sure the US has a fascist past. Manifesting Destiny is not really an act of peace is it?
Hi. Canadian here that lives near the border. We don't dislike Americans. 🇨🇦❤🇺🇸
Thats cause your really just Americans. You can play the charade all you want
@@jasondiaz8431 👍😂
I am looking for somebody who give me some more info on what is going on in Point Roberts. ie full report of negotiations by Canadian Government . News on media are not enough. I want info on rentals , biz available. When are they going to finalize matters???
The only reason this is going on is because both sides are trying to keep there people safe. It's not because anybody dislikes anybody the people in the point are gust stuck in a bad situation. We are all effected by covid one way or another. Fingers crossed things get better soon...
@@jasondiaz8431 Well, you have North America, South America, Central America so in that sense yes. But are very different from U.S.A.
This whole situation feels like a side quest in an RPG where you decide the fate of the small town, depending on what faction you choose to join lol.
Nice piece and great story-line
Glad you enjoyed it! Be sure to check out our video about Angle Inlet. It is dealing with a very similar situation
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@capichow what
Should of put a Canadian flag on top with more water on the sides.
@@capichow what does trump have to do with anything?
Just like a go chess piece. Very strategic Canada!
The borders between the different Australian STATES were closed during the COVID pandemic of 2020/2021. This caused similar problems to the people of Point Roberts, as some lived in one state, worked in another. Services and families were cut off from one another. In one case a woman was arrested for walking from her home to a corner store to buy milk- on the other side of the border.
I never understood how that was legal considering international law protects travel by citizens within the borders of ones country.
How practical would a regular ferry service be from Point Roberts to the US/Washington State Mainland? Or at least a temporary service specifically for border closings.
I sincerely dont think Canadians don't like You 3:05 , it's the Dang Pandemic and the border causing this unique situation
As a Canadian I have lost respect for much of America due to the situations going on down there, but I still like some.
@@kristianhuttaldrich8506 You have to realize that the US is not one country but moreso 50 countries with their own idealized localization of “America” as an idea. Canada is way more federalized in many regards. California alone has more people than in Canada. So when you say you have lost respect for America, it means next to nothing. Which America?
Many Canadians (and maybe even some people in certain states) don't actually get that the US has such individual states.
@Ginger "along with systemic racism and continued colonization"
Hello, Pot? This is the silverware. I'm calling you "black."
@@rockstopsthetraffic the concept of states within the United States is not a foreign concept at all.
Why the fuck do you think the "provinces" unified in 1867? To counter balance American power and the fact your were salivating at any unpopulated land minus natives.
You're country of the United States of America. On top of being plagued with Coronavirus, is also plagued with blind shutters of your perverted ideals of American exceptionism.
Yes you're country in the past has accomplished great things.
But the America we know today is a far cry from the specimen of 1776
I can’t emphasize more how underrated this channel is
The documentary is like something I've seen on channels with over 100,000 subs.
Must've cost a lot of money to drive across the country and then charter a boat
While I've been to Pt. Robert's twice, I enjoyed meeting some folks through your excellent video.
Thanks from San Francisco.
Cool Restorations too!
@@CoolRestorations some sly self promotion
Wonderful documentary!
Very well edited.
If Point Roberts joined Canada, the prices of all land would skyrocket.
same with the taxes and they will go up because it's near the water
@@ThePonycat pretty sure canada has lower taxes than the US
@@katiebaldwin5401 You guessed hella wrong. lmao
How do you think we pay for public healthcare and low priced universities and colleges? It's publicly funded, taxes in Canada are incredibly high.
The fuel price will skyrocket. With Canada's out rages fuel prices
@@katiebaldwin5401 pretty sure you have no idea what taxes are.
5:19 - Literally the only border crossing in the entire country of Canada to have a Palm Tree !
Haha yeah, check out BananaJSSI and Jungle Joe C. He grows LOTS of palm trees on Salt Spring Island, B.C., Canada. There are actually quite a few palm trees along the southwest coast of Canada and Vancouver Island.
Not really, but whatever
@@Steve-ov5ri Yep, quite a few palms along the Pacific Coast of Canada. Cheers!
@@animalconsultant7796 Yep, the SW Coast of British Columbia is packed with palms. There are certainly other palms along the border. Vancouver Island has tons of palms as well. Thanks and take care!
@@palmplanet Not really, I live in victoria and there's hardly any, although Ive seen a couple outside peoples houses, no naturally occuring though
One more town with similar problem is Hyder Alaska next to Stewart B.C. The residents of Hyder pretty much go to Stewart for most of their shopping. Same area code as BC. Kids used to go to Stewart for school also. You can get Hyderised at the only bar in Hyder.
How does one get “Hyderised” 😂
the claim of "54 40" was meant only for the area west of the Rocky Mountains. This was an area named the District of Columbia which was between Russian Alaska and Spanish California and was jointly occupied by Britain and the U.S. 54 degrees and 40 minutes latitude north was the southern point of Alaska and would have excluded British North America from any access to the Pacific. The 49th parallel boundary already existed, since 1818, from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.
There is a similar situation with the border between Sweden and Finland. The town Haparanda-Tornio are two towns that essentially act as one town. Residents work on both sides of the border and the people in the town tend to speak both languages. They even share emergency services like police firetrucks ect. Before corona virus, the border was open and residents travelled freely to do grocery shopping, go to clubs, visit friends and family. Due to both countries being part of the EU, residents could work in both countries and both halves of the town and no border checkpoints. Now however... This is one town split in two.
Both are still first world problems in comparison to India and Bangladesh or probably a number of other places lol
@@ssssaa2 Yeah but we're not talking about Bangladesh or other places...
A federal town? Lol.
Which country are they leaning towards wanting to be part of?
@@emizerri Finland I'd imagine since it's subdivisions are more diverse
I am sort of chuckling at all the trolls posting that Canada is "communist." I am about as much of a fiscal conservative as possible and love my relatively low-tax American state, but Canada is not even genuinely socialist, let alone communist. Canada is closer socially to the U.K. than the U.S. is, but the U.K. isn't "communist," either. I've been to Canada a few times, and, trust me, there are no gulags. LOL
Clearly, the propaganda has worked on the less informed and educated.
Wait, does anyone in America actually think we’re communists? Like not joking? How? How does that even happen?
@@bobbiusshadow6985 yeah the communists with the 2,000,000 dollar houses
@@canadiangopnik7007 It has something to do with the fact that politics in the US has shifted so far to the Right over the years that their Democrats are more like our Conservative Party.
Technically America is more communist than Canada but they didn't realised it until the went abroad to work. For example If an american wanted to teach in Korea and get a Korean income, he/she have to pay taxes to both the Korean and the US government.
And you can't do anything about it, the IRS can seized your assets and stuff, If you don't pay your foreign income to them.
I learned this from many Americans who renounced their citizenship once they're qualified for a foreign citizenships lol
Growing up in Vancouver, I used to love picking wild blackberries. This video brought back memories for me!
looking back on this one thing that would have been intresting is someone walking the entire lenth of the vista from lost river state park to point roberts and documented it all
Canadians: “The Vista”
Americans: “THE NO-TOUCH ZONE!”
Greetings from New Scotland!
This joke if people get it.
Let me guess your american
@@indian-tech-support let me guess, you're Scots
Yeah, they haven't gone through the same thing lately, pretty sure colonization was a hoot though.
Oh wait. You were with them, if you're Scots.
OOF and it's also cold AF all the time, as is Scotland. IT'S JUST LIKE IT but in a modern context it's probably not going to be as bloody a transition as nobody is disputing it we're trying to make things easier this time.
The amzazing hamzy 392 let me guess, someone failed geography. 😊 New Scotland = Nova Scotia in Latin. Nova Scotia is a province located on the Eastern Maritime coast of the Dominion of Canada.
I never understood how come EU countries (which, not that long ago, were at war with each other, with so many different languages and cultures), managed to open fully their borders to each other creating the Schengen zone; while the US and Canada, which are culturally and linguistically much closer to each other, never created a Schengen-like zone...
Called California, there’s a shitload of Canadians there.
we have somethiing like it ... just the recent pandemic scare is forcing the closures although point richards is covid free vancouver is not ... so by staying out they avoid bringing it in to their region ... generally we see the border as a place to get cheap booze a place a to go bathroom get a snack perhaps and find out what roads are under construction ... more like a rest stop than anything else
911
@@stevebbuk Following your logic, a lot of US or Canadian places should have a border checkpoint to the rest of the country.
I don't need to google the Bataclan attacks. I am French myself and I live in Lithuania. Schengen is not the cause of the Bataclan attacks, but the laxist immigration policy of some countries (France, Belgium, Germany) for people NOT coming from the Schengen zone. Do not mix everything.
@@PolosLatinos But they're all linked. Give away your nationality and you will get illegal immigrants slipping through the borders. My country has left the EU but it's too late now: I don't want the same to happen to North America. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/02/majority-of-paris-attackers-used-migration-routes-to-enter-europ/
Very well done
Excellent documentary well done✓
God bless everyone.🙏.
This channel is so underrated, great quality videos that are actually interesting and give an inside look on less talked about places are hard to find elsewhere.
This documentary was so so so well done. The fact that such a small channel is making this high of content and i’m here to see it in the early stages is incredible. As a videographer myself, this is the originality i love to see. Keep it up!
Thanks ConnorMakesMovies! Videographers unite!
Went up there a couple times in early 70's to visit sister. Things were more relaxed back then and crossing posts were basically large huts. Used to walk across border frequently into Canada to local store and back. Point Robert's wasn't nearly as built up back then, VERY low key.
Excellent video! All the residents should chip in and buy a good size boat to ferry the students and bundle a food purchase 2 or three times a week. Also purchase a good speedy cabin cruiser for taking people to Bellingham!
The media coverage is going to make this the most dangerous place soon.
How would point roberts be the most dangerous? O.o
@@lordhelix2760 Just use your BRAINs
@@lordhelix2760 because the woman just exposed that it’s basically the witness protection capital where well known people hide from people that want to kill them
Get some perspective, dude.
@@riseupmusicgroup that was kind of stupid of her
They make point Roberts sound like an American Hong Kong
Edit: this made more sense in my head but I see the difference now.
No or little violence here and don't have to put up with Mainland China.
its all about politic..
How? It's nothing like Hong Kong lol
@@POTATOSOOPS it’s connected to one country but belongs to another
@@KlaxontheImpailr Hong Kong is connected to one country and belongs to that same country. Did you think it was still a British colony? lol
I would check out Hyder Alaska its another place that is isolated and the Canadians use to have to travel through Hyder to get to a mine. Not sure if the mine is still active. But Hyder Alaska is the same.
It's not just Point Roberts. There's also some weirdness at the northern tip of Minnesota, where again you have to go through Canada to reach it. And at least one island which is much easier to reach by going through the other country.
3:42, "I continued to walk the border until i ran into a real Canadian"
bruh u make it sounds like you found someone from an isolated tribe 💀💀💀
kinda true... Real canadians with real Canadian blood (type M) are really hard to find.
Lmao, he made it sound like a nature documentary "Ahh, yes, we've just spotted a Canadian in it's natural habitat"
@@reemaalmu9172 what 🤣🤣
@@cgurl Type Mapel Blood?
@@reemaalmu9172 you’re an idiot 😂😂
The editing, production, and everything else here is stunningly well done. Thanks RUclips for doing your job.
I think one would be just a safe in Angle, Wisconsin, but you may get very bored at times. Also, very cold during the winter.
Point Roberts looks like a ghost town Wenatchee will follow suite eventually has for sale signs everywhere.
Americans: "Hmm Point Roberts has no case of Covid... Road Trip!!!"
Well, you cannot give them what you do not have, and that includes a virus that 96% of infectees have no symptoms from and which has a 99.9996% recovery rate . . . and why is half the people in this video wearing a mindless sheeple face diaper?
@@elwoodblues9613 I got sick with the virus in March, Spent a month in my bed and a couple of days in hospital. I used to be able to run for 30 minutes now i only can run about 2 minutes months later. So F U.
@@srzar - it's a matter of taking the precautions that you need to take, and not insisting that everyone else must take those same precautions otherwise they're murderers. If you do insist on the highest precautions for everyone, then you would have been a valuable asset to the Third Reich in the 1930s.
@@elwoodblues9613 Anyone who thinks they are entitled to put in danger lives of other people because of their idiosyncrasies have to do some soul searching, it does not matter how improbable because you will never know who would have a harder reaction to the virus and die from it. I got sick exactly because a Coworker who didn't take the all necessary precautions.
@@srzar Drugs used to fight HIV can weaken a person's immunity to Covid.
They didn’t refuse your interview, just pushed you to PAO. Should have contacted PAO...you would have had good access to the issue.
Lol he’s a Hipster! they don’t really follow all the way through with solutions, but i guess he had good intentions tho 7/10
CBP press officers exist specifically to prevent access to issues. But yes a minute or two of their doubletalk on camera would have made an interesting addition to this piece.
When the 49th parallel was decided as the border, Point Roberts slipped by as if no one notice it was there. The southern 1/3 of Vancouver Island is also below the 49th. From Ucluelet on the west coast and from Cedar on the East would all be part of the USA but an agreement was reached giving the Alaska Panhandle to the US and southern Vancouver Island to Canada. At the time no consideration was made for Point Roberts.
Another similar enclave is Angle Inlet, Minesota . People have to use a Canadian road to access to school or do their shopping in USA.
The bloke trying to sell Point Roberts to Canada looked a bit like George Bush sn.
I didn't think he looked dead at all !
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It’s a publicity stunt , he can’t do anything ,
or William H. Macy
You should make another place exactly like that - Angle Inlet.
I remember early this year I was playing around Google Maps and I seen this funny border between the little piece of land and Canada.
Hahaha the people complain about everything but are still against the solution. Epic.
Yep
Which is becoming canadian. It's a tiny ass piece. Fuck the charm. The benefits far outweigh the advantages.
Why does there only have to be one solution? Things don’t have to be binary.
“ItS nOt vEry aMeriCan” cool, fine. Live without good access to schools, healthcare or reliable ferries and hope your ignorant patriotism makes up for that.
Incredible video
Thanks much!
Wait Sk1er why are you here
its the man with the keystrokes mod
my auto tip stopped working plz fix
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Canuck near Point Roberts: "The Vista"
Me after watching CGP Grey: "No no. Its the 'No Touching Zone'"
Seems like they should have a boat specifically to take people back and forth. Like a ferry
This video felt like a feature length documentary. Wonderful job
4:48 you just outed that man so hard! He just wanted to save on shipping costs😂😂
I’m a point Roberts resident and student of Canada. I cross the border every day
What about Nothwest Angle in northern Minnesota? It is completely surrounded by Canada and can only be entered through Canada by land, or by crossing Lake in the Woods
Check our channel, we just went there and released a video on it
This kind of honor code system at the border would never fly at the US-Mexico border.
Because Canadians tend to go back to Canada Thats Why
@@slazeblaze319 Yes. I have Canadian relatives, they often cross the border to go shopping in Minnesota and cross back to Manitoba.
That's because there's a whole different continent under Mexico which tends to go through Mexico and into the U.S. Meanwhile Canada is remote with low populations
@Rumpel Felt shit they probably do. Their was a movie called the Cannibis Kid that was based on drug running from Canada to the USA
It is monitored though. Someone my husband works with was sent out to survey some land at a wild, unmanned border area. He was getting close to the border, but didn't cross it. Next thing he knew the US patrol were there, trying to talk to him and get him to cross over so they could arrest him, even though he never left Canada.
The northwest angle in MN is facing something similar! The only land connection is through Canada. So with the border closure, they built an ice road over Lake of The Woods connecting it to the mainland. They will still have problems when the ice melts though!
Wow
We’re filming a piece at the Angle right now. Thanks for the rec!
I heard, don't know if it's true, when the lake freezes over, the governments treat it like land and regulate what part of the ice you travel on. Heaven forbid, if an American crossing to Angle Inlet inadvertently went onto Canadian ice! I don't think boat traffic on the lake is regulated like that in summer. If I'm being inaccurate, I'd appreciate knowing.
We should not sell pieces of America to commie in Canada
@guitarszen period. thank you. happy Canada day!
such a cool concept - we should do everything to make it work
If you find this interesting, look up Angle Inlet, Minnesota. Very similar situation and it's totally bizarre.
We have a video about Angle Inlet as well: ruclips.net/video/tE-9YPxCBLo/видео.html
Zero Covid cases
This guy:
Let’s go there as outsiders!
Yeah wouldn’t want to ruin there record
Bring them blankets as gifts.
lol what the heck
He has a extra special gift for them it’s just won’t arrive for a couple of days
You do understand the reason they have no COVID cases is that they are isolated and that people can’t go in or out.
That makes it a little easier to have zero cases.
Was really surprised to click on this video and find that it was an on-the-ground documentary. Incredible quality work, great job. You earned a subscriber.
Thanks for taking the chance on us!
It's produced by Amazon isn't it?
@@quantumhelium No we just chose to stream it on Amazon. It's all made and funded by us Off the Cuf guys
I think there is something not special, but stupid... you have it.. but not yet. lets do it together and make some money I have many connections
Fun. Watching from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
You didn’t talk about the septic tanks popping out of the ground it’s the best thing I’ve ever seen in point roberts
Northwest Angle, MN: Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary
I was wondering when the Angle would be mentioned! Now that's remote!
Hi kim
Oh, hello.
Lol!!
Hey Kim, my friend Trump says he misses you. Wants to catch you before Jan 20. After that, he says he have to bust out ol 757 to travel again.
I remember crossing the Ambassador Bridge into Detroit at 3 am one morning {before 9/11) with Tractor and an empty flat bed trailer, the guard looks up, looks at the trailer, and nods me to proceed. Not a word spoken between us. How times have changed!
Brian you’re right my Neice boyfriend then they just cross the border to Toronto and vice versa he used to say to the border guard l have one Canadian and two or more Americans then there we go
You can thank that to American imperialism and the military industrial complex.
Ya, that didn't exist before 2001.
Oh wait. your cribbing from Dwight Eisenhower more than 60 years ago and they just got around to it this century.@@alwaysright6358
@@alwaysright6358 well no, you can thank the terrorists who got into the US through Canada.
@@rorypaul153 The us dominance era has been the most prosperous, and the most politically divided, there are 2 sides on the coin
of politics
Also check out the north west angle, lake of the woods, Manitoba Ontario Minnesota border
There is a similar scenario like this in Minnesota Manitoba border. The city is called the Northwest Angle.
Yep! We have a video about that area as well. Check it oot 🫣
It surprises me that there isn't a ferry between Point Roberts and Blaine tbh. I can't imagine having to drive from border to border everyday omggg
Whatcom county has started a new ferry between mainland and Point Roberts since this was filmed. I don't remember if Lummi or Blaine are the connecting mainland points.
@@mythicnoetic Oh that's really cool, I didn't know about that!
About time! 👍
@@mythicnoetic yay! I moved near Seattle in 2019 and just found out Pt Roberts is a thing!
I understand your point - especially because there is already a major Ferry System & Ferries already running multiple trips per days between the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal & Victoria (The Capital City of the Province of British Columbia) that sits in the Southern part of Vancouver Island.