Unusual town has most of its residents living in one building
Whittier, Alaska, is a small town where almost all of its residents live in one 14-storey building that has a post office, grocery store, church and laundromat.
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The remote town where almost all of its residents live in one 14-storey building
Imagine living in one building that you share with everybody else who resides in the same town - that's the reality in one unusual place.