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[ub3r]

i live in oxford, michigan.

Throughout my town, you can find signs that say we're the sister city of oxford england.

I tried finding someone who lives in oxford england to find out if we're mentioned in any signs over there. Results are inconclusive.

Do any of you live in oxford england, and if you do - have you ever heard of oxford michigan outside of this thread?

[UH-Matt]

Hmmm, according to the oxford city website... They are twinned with...

Bonn, Germany
www.bonn.de/

Grenoble, France
www.ville-grenoble.fr/

Leiden, Netherlands
www.leiden.nl/

Leon, Nicaragua
www.nicaragua.com/

Perm, Russia
www.rol.ru/


No mention of Oxford, Michigan.


Source: http://www.oxfordcity.co.uk/oxford/h..._twinning.html

[Flumps]

Hi,

I live in oxford, well didcot but close enough. I cant say ive ever heard or seen of anything.

[CD Burnt]

I've visited oxford, england. saw nothing about mikeylove. sorry.

[bear]

heh, I live in Oxford, NY..that claims to be "sistered" with Oxford CT, and Oxford, England.
I think it's all made up....

[Informity]

Well, it's common everywhere. If you look at a map of the USA it's almost unbelievable how many of the places are in fact towns/cities in the UK.

Is this because when people emigrated, they named their places after their home towns?

[jamesaspey]

My town is twinned with Angers in france - i rarely here of UK towns/cities being twinned with American ones.

[varg]

Originally posted by Informity
Well, it's common everywhere. If you look at a map of the USA it's almost unbelievable how many of the places are in fact towns/cities in the UK.

Is this because when people emigrated, they named their places after their home towns?

Yeah that's exactly it. I first lived in Westminster.

[Tyler]

I live close to Oxford, Ohio

[mdrussell]

Originally posted by varg
Yeah that's exactly it. I first lived in Westminster.

Hardly surprising though when it was predominantly British (and some French) settlers that colonised North America.

We have a few villages round here twinned with villages in France but none with America.

[Georgecooldude]

I used to live in Oxford last year. No I had never heard of Oxford Michigan when I lived there.


Strangely enough I found out about Oxford Michigan just earlier today when I was looking at a map. How bizarre. Also I had never seen a sign saying oxford was twinned with you.

I'm going next Tuesday into Oxford, - I'll take a look at the welcome sign as I'm driving it to see if it mentions it.

[ub3r]

if you do find mention of us, make sure to take a picture of it.

[FileGig]

Live in Oxford and it's definitely not mentioned anywhere .

[ub3r]

Thank you for providing me with an answer to a question which has plagued my mind for the past year.

[FileGig]

Originally Posted by ub3r

Thank you for providing me with an answer to a question which has plagued my mind for the past year.

That's okay .

I think to be a sister town you'd have to have loads of stupid cyclists who ride around at night with no lights - kind of worrying that most of them are meant to go to the best uni in the UK .