It is instantly obvious that
New York City -- with an
urban population coming close to twenty million people, the vast majority likely owning
television sets,
VCRs, and who knows what else kind of
technology amiably operated at a distance by a variety of
wave-emitting devices, is the "most
remote" town in the
United States.
Is it a town
Well you might object, naturally, that this multi-million-filled location is hardly a "town," but you and I ought to know better. Just
list to these guys, the
Beastie Boys, echoing
Frank Sinatra, telling you, "New York, New York, it's a
hell of a...."
city? no.
village? no again.
metropolis? strike three, bud. "It's a hell of a
town," they tell you, it's someone's kinda
town, it's a
wonderful town. Not that it is, necessarily, wonderful or "my kind of" anything in my
opinion, but it is therein undeniably described, high and low, noon and night, as a town.
Is it the "most remote"?
Now, taking as a given that this is a town, herein is the answer to the query of it being the "most remote" town in the
United States. Naturally there are more populous areas in the world, but not within the United States; and there may be areas even in the USA where ownership of devices for the remote operation of electronics is more heavily concentrated per capita. But there is hardly an even arguable case for any other town being able to compete in terms of the raw number of remotes. In the absence of some pretty damning proof put forth of another place having a seriously atypical proportion of remotes to population, it's safe to say that New York City is indeed:
The Most Remote Town in the United States.
ba-DUM-tsing!!