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Re:You'd Be Happier Living Closer to Friends. Why Don't You? by SllX on Monday April 17, 2023 @10:17PM (#35609196)
Sure, that’s a defensible argument on the merits against the colloquial usage of the word city as applied to some of these places but you’re running up against the fact that the term “city” has been eroded to near meaninglessness in North America.

New England has counties and townships and cities, California and Texas only have counties and cities. Even a place that calls itself a town is still a city as far as their laws go, so advocating your position is going to run up against practical issues with people about why you’re saying their city isn’t a city.

We already have terms for this, and it’s called the suburbs.

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Re:You'd Be Happier Living Closer to Friends. Why Don't You? by TylerE on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:44PM (#35609734)
And a few places like Virginia, you have Cities and Counties, and you can only be in one or the other. Sort of a Vatican City/Italy situation, except the same country.
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Re:You'd Be Happier Living Closer to Friends. Why Don't You? by ryeights on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @12:20AM (#35609913)
I like the idea. Simplified governance
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Re:You'd Be Happier Living Closer to Friends. Why Don't You? by SllX on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @02:04AM (#35610473)
I omitted it for simplicity, but San Francisco is basically that: a consolidated City and County, the only one in the State. I mean in legal effect it washes out to a charter county that is also called a city, we have a Board of Supervisors and a Mayor but no city council, and we employ both a Police Department and a Sheriffs Department.

Texan cities though, some of those cross into three counties.

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Re:You'd Be Happier Living Closer to Friends. Why Don't You? by midoridensha on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @02:14AM (#35610534)
Even worse, some of those "cities" only have about 3000 people in them.
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