Remember that? I’ll rerun the basic problem:
There is only one city in the United States wherein traveling along the four compass points—north, south, east and west—brings you [cross over into] the same single state, no matter which direction you choose. Name the city, and the state.
I gave up after a while, and told him it had to be on the East Coast, or in the Upper Midwest, around the Great Lakes.
S.R.:
Well, I guessed Washington, D.C., trying to stretch a point that it is “surrounded” (kinda) by Maryland. I was wrong. It’s not in the Midwest either.
The answer is Stamford, Connecticut.
A line drawn due north goes to New York State.
A line drawn due west goes to New York State.
A line drawn due south crosses Long Island Sound to Long Island, New York.
A line drawn due east passes over a lot of Long Island Sound and then hits the “North Fork”
of Eastern Long Island.Now that’s trivia!
I looked at Washington, D.C. as well, but it was no good. Once you zoom in to a certain point on Google maps the state lines become harder to see, too. And I scrutinized all the state panhandles, as well. Would I ever have found Connecticut? I doubt it.
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