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The cities don't have the housing and service capacity for all the people who work there. The cities and suburbs wouldn't exist in anything near their current
by dsfyu404ed 6y ago
The cities don't have the housing and service capacity for all the people who work there.
The cities and suburbs wouldn't exist in anything near their current form without each other. Neither would exist as they are if rural areas didn't provide the resources they do with the (tiny) amount of labor they do. Our entire modern world is interconnected like that. You can try and turn policy knobs in order to have a steep urban to rural transition with minimal suburbs in between but there's always going to be a transition, never a sharp cutoff.
- jeffbee 6y agoI’m talking about the real parasites, the ones where they draw a line around their fancy houses and say “that’s your school district and this is ours” but reserve the right to drive to and through your city, and park there, and access its jobs and cultural institutions.