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Re:What Happens When a Suburb Begins to Die? by specialist on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @07:10AM (#15448782)
"rarely directly financed"

Suburbs, sprawl are subsidized by urban areas. By zip code, county, state, region.

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Re:What Happens When a Suburb Begins to Die? by AlgorithmicTime on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @01:38PM (#15451527)
Not typically.

Unless you're claiming that by working in the city and commuting home to the suburbs, people are being subsidized by the city. But that would be silly.

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Re:What Happens When a Suburb Begins to Die? by specialist on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @04:31PM (#15453185)
In the USA, wealth transfer from urban areas to every where else is official policy.

Not a claim. Merely a statement of fact.

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Re:What Happens When a Suburb Begins to Die? by ComputerGuru on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @04:40PM (#15453259)
A suburb of a major city is considered part of that urban metropolis in all those numbers, to the best of my knowledge.
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