This is my second attempt to present this article, following the debacle yesterday evening when I posted a rough outline. That was the first time I’d hit the publish button prematurely in nearly 500 articles. I suppose it was bound to happen eventually. Hopefully it didn\u2019t cause too much confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The whole point of this article, which may or may not have been apparent from the inadvertent draft, is to feature businesses that go directly up to a border without actually crossing it; done for economic reasons. This is the flip-side to an earlier article I provided about buildings that straddle a border, or something I called Bordersplit<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jurisdictions may have different taxes or cultural norms. A product on one side might have a higher price or it might even be illegal on the other. These disparities create powerful business incentives. Someone can set up shop on the more permissive side and entice customers across.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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