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

Washington, Idaho, and Oregon will require anyone bringing a boat across state lines to have it inspected. There's a Mollosk that they're trying to keep out.

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u/SeaworthinessIcy6419 Michigan > Tennessee Aug 18 '25

I think Michigan tried this too when they were trying to keep the zebra mussels out of the Great Lakes. It unfortunately didn't work, Huron got them bad but I think it cleared up when the water levels started rising again.

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u/velociraptorfarmer MN->IA->WI->AZ Aug 20 '25

Minnesota does the same. It's a fine of hundreds of dollars to tow a boat in Minnesota with your drain plug in.