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Re:How Much Does a Mile of Road Cost? by phkahler on Monday January 27, 2020 @06:18PM (#22164901)
>> and all for the low price of _more than owning a house_?

I didnt read much judgement in th parent post, but it does imply suburbia is subsidized because it has higher infrastructure cost per dollar of tax revenue. The was a study on that very thing a couple years ago IIRC and they found the most solvent towns and cities are actually the higher density ones even if they are lower income areas.

Re:How Much Does a Mile of Road Cost? by SubuSS on Monday January 27, 2020 @06:57PM (#22165107)
Are you thinking of dollar revenue as an average OR considering suburbian dollar revenue separate? You'd think the suburbia also brings in more cash to the government (I got no sources).
Re:How Much Does a Mile of Road Cost? by davidw on Monday January 27, 2020 @07:08PM (#22165165)
Re:How Much Does a Mile of Road Cost? by ummonk on Monday January 27, 2020 @10:10PM (#22166086)
The discussion was about per-person costs, so per-acre revenues are irrelevant.
Re:How Much Does a Mile of Road Cost? by davidw on Monday January 27, 2020 @11:58PM (#22166593)
You can have cities configured to have more or less people per acre.

It turns out that having more of them per acre is more cost effective.