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The point is to address why city is SO expensive while suburbs are so cheap. Even thought suburbs require a new set of infrastructure to be built in the middle
by jeromegv 5y ago
The point is to address why city is SO expensive while suburbs are so cheap. Even thought suburbs require a new set of infrastructure to be built in the middle of nowhere and where density of housing is rarely enough in the long term for the tax base to pay for the suburbs. Very often, this is the city that is subsiding suburban living.
- slothtrop 5y agoYou're referring to tax structure. It's a form of wealth redistribution; corporations in the city center, and businesses in dense strip malls all around, are the big earners in the city. Suburbanites already feel like they pay high taxes on their houses, at a discount, notwithstanding the obscene cost of mortgages. You could drastically revamp zoning laws and still living in the outskirts would be less expensive (See: Japan). Of course we should do this because it creates more options and opportunities for consumers and which NATURALLY increase density of cities without the need for senseless coercion.