>>I feel jipped :o) My immersion consisted of 3 months living with a wonderful family in a town of maybe 100 folks with no running water or electricity.
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>Um... beg to differ. In Europe, anything of that size would be called a village. Even places with up to 10,000 people can still be villages.
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>USA seems to be the only country without any villages, unless we count Greenwich Village ;).

Yes, I've noticed that. Places we'd call a village in England are towns in the USA. I guess it's all part of the supersize me culture. In UK we used to buy things (like drinks in a cinema) that were small, medium or large. Now, since US influence, they're regular, large and extra large.

Americans don't want to be seen as small. In the UK a town needs to have a cathedral, and be pretty big, or get a charter from the Queen, in order to become a city. The contiguous towns of Brighton and Hove, where I live, got such a charter the other year - now we're the city of B & H. It seems that in the US, if it's got an hotel, saloon bar, livery stable, telegraph office and a sherrif it becomes a city! :-)