It’s not rly a term that’s used but it’s the correct term as well as what it says on welcome signs. Like “welcome to the village of [name]”. Most people just use the term town/small town. I was just explaining the true difference between the three for OPs question
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bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 months agoI’ve never once heard an American use the term “village” to describe a municipality, even ironically.
Contemporarium@lemm.ee 2 months ago
tmyakal@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s dependent on a given state’s terminology. New York, for example, has villages. They’re municipalities that fall within towns, but collectively offer additional services that the town does not. So I could live in the village of Pomona, in the town of Haverstraw, and I’d need to pay taxes to the village and the town separately.