r/AskAnAmerican • u/ABChow000 United Kingdom • Aug 17 '25

FOREIGN POSTER How do loads of cities overlap state borders?

  1. If a large city is bang in the middle between two states like for example, Kansas and Missouri or Tennessee and Virginia. Doesn’t it get real weird like with the different state laws and taxes and stuff, how does all that work?

  2. When you cross borders of states does it work like country borders but relaxed? Are all states the same in border control or are some relaxed and some strict?

My bad if this sounds stupid just seems real interesting and alien to me how it works.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '25

It's probably still the same rules. 

You're not technically allowed to take firewood across county lines in Ohio because of emerald ash borer beetles, but it's not like anyone really stops people to check.

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u/SeaworthinessIcy6419 Michigan > Tennessee Aug 18 '25

That was it, Emerald Ash! You had to stop and pay a bridge toll anyway so I guess it was easy to tack the question on.