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Re:What Happens When a Suburb Begins to Die? by brudgers on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @11:14AM (#15450411)
Why would a city agree to merge with a distressed, money-draining suburb?

Perhaps neighborliness. Perhaps a sense of community. Perhaps because neither city can move and arbitrary political borders are permeable to hard problems, i.e. if the roads in one city are impassible then people cannot get to the other. The other city owns the problems whether it acknowledges it or not.

Re:What Happens When a Suburb Begins to Die? by ucaetano on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @10:52PM (#15455338)
Perhaps, just as perhaps you would buy your bankrupt neighbor's home and let them live in it for free.

Not happening.