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Population, 1: Elsie Eiler is the only resident in northeast Nebraska town

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MONOWI — The founding fathers must have chuckled at the impossibility of the job when they etched it into the Constitution: Count every man, woman and child along every back road and big-city avenue in the entire country.
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Wow how brave she is living alone... That will crack me up!
 
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Some people enjoy loneliness. Hopefully this is about the person as well.
 
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I would quite fancy that. The pace of life must be quite slow. Well, not sure of course. The thing is, only natural borders are real borders, every other border exists only in our minds and administration. In my native Belgium the tiniest municipality has only a 70-some people but that's just because the busy streets a mile away fall under a different municipality. That doesn't mean those 70-some in the tiny town live in isolation, it's just a 5 minute walk to a quite busy road.

Isolation, true isolation, is like the Pitcairn Islands: 50 to 70 people on an archipelago over 1000 km away from the nearest mainland, no airport, only 1 ship per few months, hardly any outside visitors, and the only cafe and shop in town opened just a few hours a week. That is true remoteness. Any town in a regular country, even with just 1 resident, remains just an administrative oddity and nothing more. Take a 5 minute walk and you may enter a vibrant community, even if you cross an imaginary line underway.
 
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In some countries there are villages where people have no point even to go to the cities living all their lives in this isolated state. Some of them cannot stand crowded places for more than an hour.
 
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