In Northern California, Sacramento & other counties subsidized utility hookups for wealthy residents (lots of local tech and flight from SanFran) who wanted to

In Northern California, Sacramento & other counties subsidized utility hookups for wealthy residents (lots of local tech and flight from SanFran) who wanted to live further out in the rural El Dorado Hills area. This had long term consequences of the city always being in debt and having to sprawl to stay ahead. I see this as catering to the rich, who could have afforded it, simply because they wanted to live in palatial McMansions in the countryside and felt entitled to be accommodated. I don't think it should be the obligation of the county to provide utilities if people want to live outside city limits. If you want to live rural, you need to come up with the cash to get your utilities, otherwise too bad, live in the city limits. There are very good reasons why there is a thing called "city limits", this is one of them.