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In dc.general, vinny@access1.digex.net (Vincent Monacella) writes:
>I'll AMEN that pet peeve.  I have children who were born in Fairfax
>Hospital, yet their birth certificates state that they were born in Falls
>Church, VA simply because Fairfax Hospital has Falls Church as a POSTAL
>address.  Now how are they supposed to answer questions on applications of

      Doesn't the "Fairfax" in Fairfax Hospital refer to the county?
It's not within the city limits of Fairfax, so why should it have a
Fairfax (City) rather than Falls Church address? One thing you should
realize about Virginia, as opposed to states north of the Mason-Dixon
Line (esp in New England), is that counties are the important political
units, independent cities much less so. Up north you have townships
and villages. They run schools, police and fire departments, etc. They
nickel and dime you to death with fire/water/school district taxes.
They have a convoluted maze of jurisdictional boundaries for various
kinds of services and have a dizzying variety of taxes to match. I personally
prefer the method used in Virginia (and many other states) where you
have county-wide services with alot more uniformity as a result. I suppose
there are some disadvantages to this way of doing things, but it sure
does make life simpler!
						Steve