Some people say that they have traveled more, seen more, and seen more strange things.
However, since there are people in the world who travel everywhere in the south and the north of the sea, there are people who do not want to go anywhere all day long, but only want to stay at home. After Japanese culture entered our country, it brought the term "otaku", which refers to these people who are all at home, never go out, and communicate with people only on the Internet.
Of course, such people are rare in real life, but in alaska, on the other side of the ocean, there is such a small town, all the residents of the town (200) live in the same building, many of them may not have been out of the building for half a lifetime, this is not a gathering place for otaku and otaku, but the legendary town of Whittier.
The town of Whittier is a world-famous legend, and although it is a town, the only building in the town is a building called begisch towers, which is 15 stories high.
It is like a self-sufficient being, with everything in the building enough to feed the inhabitants of the town. Of course, among the local population, it also has a name , a resort in the wilderness , which is enough to see how comfortable life is in the building. So, what is the history of this wonderful town of Whittier?
Located at the western end of Prince William Bay, the town of Whittier is about 100 kilometers from Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, facing the sea and surviving independently, with only one tunnel called the Anderson Tunnel, one of the longest tunnels in North America, built during World War II.
As we all know, in the middle and late period of World War II, there were many conflicts between the Japanese army and the US military in the Pacific theater, and in the face of the indiscriminate bombardment of Japanese aircraft, the US military decided to find a place to build a military base to contain the Japanese army. So at this time, Whittier, who has an ice-free port, entered the field of vision of the US military.
In order to facilitate the transportation of military equipment, the U.S. military built the Anderson Tunnel to connect to the outside world, which became the only way for the town to go outside. And the tunnel is also a one-way street, and neither car can pass through it if it is driving in the opposite direction. During World War II, the U.S. military used Whittier as its military base, and the Buckner Building, the predecessor of the Bejic Building, was erected.
Because of the cold local weather, so the life of the military and civilians is all in the building, the building has everything needed for human life, in addition to the basic food and clothing security, spiritual entertainment has not fallen, library, theater, bowling alley everything.
The building was built to ward off the cold winter and to avoid exposing targets for outdoor activities. During the Cold War, the Bejic Building, originally a family apartment building for officers, was built to build more than the Batna Building.
After the end of the Cold War, the Battner Building was gradually abandoned, and most of the residents of the small town of Whittier moved into the Bejic building and continued to live a "stay-at-home" life in a different place.
The town of Whittier is open to tourists, so over the years many people have been curious to visit the area to see if the residents really don't have to go out after living in the building.
Don't look at the Bejic building from the outside is only a wide building, but in fact, the interior has all the facilities needed by a town, even the offices of the relevant departments, other such as hospitals, restaurants, police stations, schools, supermarkets, post offices, etc. There are about 150 rooms in the building that are dedicated to these basic posts to ensure the normal operation of society.
However, these places are not large in size, and there are not many staff members inside, but the professional practitioners are also professionally trained and have qualified business licenses; and although there are only two teachers in the school, it is enough to deal with the children in the town.
As for the police, in fact, they are more like the staff who maintain the normal operation of the entire building, after all, in the building, almost everyone looks up and looks down, and the cost of committing crimes is too great, so the police are basically useless, except to prevent some petty theft, other times it is basically the same as the hotel security guards. There is also a large square in the building, dedicated to residents to exercise and walk, and the popularity of the Internet, Wi-Fi and the like in the building is also needless to say.
The Bejic building also has the top two floors as a hotel, so that visitors can stay in the town, experience an alternative "resort" life, and experience how the entertainment activities in the whole town are done in one building.
Many residents have not been out of the building for half a lifetime, but it is not that they cannot go out, but they are unwilling, they do not think that the Bejic building is a place where they are imprisoned, they actively choose not to go out, because everything in the building can meet their daily needs, even higher spiritual needs, then naturally there is no need to go out.
If the Japanese kind of "squatting at home" is closed to themselves, the life of the residents of the small town of Whittier can be regarded as "within a certain range" of openness.
In fact, think about it, even if it is outside the building, many people's lives are only three points and a line, in a fixed range of activities, communication with fixed people, fixed entertainment activities, inside and outside the building, in fact, there is no difference.
In the world's first "home" town, residents all live in the same building, and the school supermarkets are all available
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