Whittier, Alaska
Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
According to CNN, there are about 200 permanent residents of Whittier, Alaska. Like many small towns, everybody knows each other there. But unlike every other small town in the country, the reason for that is that most people in Whittier live in the same building.
That building is Begich Towers Incorporated, a 14-story brutalist complex that features a hospital, school, church, store, and living arrangements for nearly all of its citizens in just one structure. It’s rumored that residents haven’t left the building in years, and in Whittier, they don’t necessarily have to.