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Re:Venetians are pondering raising their entire city by tough on Sunday May 28, 2023 @07:41AM (#36103180)
If they relocate the govt and companies paying salaries to those 20M, won't they also move there?
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Re:Venetians are pondering raising their entire city by seanmcdirmid on Sunday May 28, 2023 @08:13AM (#36103346)
They are relocating the government. The private companies weren’t invited. This is like how Burma moved its capital from Rangoon to Nay Pyi Taw, Rangoon is still the commercial capital if Burma.
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Re:Venetians are pondering raising their entire city by jcranmer on Sunday May 28, 2023 @10:29AM (#36104277)
The other examples I would reach for are Côte d'Ivoire moving its capital from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro in 1983, or Nigeria moving from Lagos to Abuja in 1991. In both cases, the old capital is still far and away the largest city in the country, like 10× the new capital city.
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Re:Venetians are pondering raising their entire city by ta1243 on Monday May 29, 2023 @06:22AM (#36112503)
> Nigeria moving from Lagos to Abuja in 1991

By comparison, since 2020 the Lagos population grew by more than the entire population of Abuja.

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Re:Venetians are pondering raising their entire city by 627467 on Sunday May 28, 2023 @08:12AM (#36103334)
That's it: 20 million helpless people are going to move like sheep because shepherds are moving to another place.
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Re:Venetians are pondering raising their entire city by paavope on Sunday May 28, 2023 @08:15AM (#36103355)
I’m sure some will move, but that number is going to be closer to 0 than 20M
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