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Re: What elephant?
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You talk about the problems with "cities" when you mean post-industrial mid-Atlantic cities. San Jose really is a city. It's not perfect, but it's problems are different than Philadelphia's problems. If you want to have a conversation about the problems in Philadelphia (or Baltimore, or Detroit), fine -- just don't think you're talking about "cities" generally.
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Houston is going to agree with this. Hell most of Texas is going to agree with this.
ETA: And Houston solves some of these problems by annexing the suburbs to ensure that the massive sprawl is under one tax base. Makes for a 600 square mile city the size of Rhode Island but it also avoids some of the problems ya'll are talking about.
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