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Where I live, there are no suburbs. I live in the dead center of a valley the size of CONNECTICUT, and yet there are only 50,000 people in the entire valley, and 9k of them live in Alamosa, with me.
25 miles east is Blanca, CO, with 400 people. 15 miles to the south is La Jara, CO, with 800 people. 14 miles north is Mosca, CO, with 1200 people. 18 miles northwest is Monte Vista, CO, with 4,000 people.
I know there are plenty of rural places like this, and you're probably looking for more urban areas, but I thought I'd give an example anyway. What is it like? It sucks. I've lived in Blanca and I've lived in Alamosa. Living in Blanca, we went grocery shopping once a month. We did all of that "big city" stuff once a month. We could, to my surprise, get Alamosa radio stations as well as their TV station via bunny ears. Would a city like this survive? Well, it's farming country, despite being a desert. It's some of the poorest area in the country, and it's definitely the poorest in Colorado. Many of the families here have been here since the 1800s, when their hispanic ancestors first came to farm potatoes. Most of those who've come since then left once winter rolled around.
You asked why little towns popped up around Jacksonville. My question is, why wouldn't they? Why wouldn't those in the smaller towns want to be close to the conveniences of the big town?
St Petersburg, Russia. It was so strange to me that the highrise apartment buildings just stopped and then you were in the country; there was no transition whatsoever. Thay are just now beginning to build suburban-style developments there.
San Anotnio, TX has very few suburbs, the majority of the areas outside of the city limits are still considered to be San Antonio and have SA addresses.
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