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Well, I live on the far-flung edge of a very spread-out metropolitan area. It's part of that metropolitan area only technically, though. My area has much more in common with the smaller towns to the north of it than the city to the south.
I live in a town of 30,000. One hour away is a city of about 140,000. You have to drive at least 2.5 hours to get to a metro area of at least 1 million from my location. I don't think anyone here is as rural as I am.
I live in a town of 30,000. One hour away is a city of about 140,000. You have to drive at least 2.5 hours to get to a metro area of at least 1 million from my location. I don't think anyone here is as rural as I am.
You're still in a town of 30,000 people. I'm about 30-40 minutes from a city of 140,000 people, and in a similar sized town. Surprised how much growth your county has, 30% increase per decade? Usually rural and small town areas have stagnant growth.
Urania93, if you can call her a regular, lives in a very small village which I don't think is part of the Torino metropolitan area.
BTW, I didn't know Nidaros (Trondheim) has almost exactly the same population as Turku. 187k and 186k. Though that's pretty everyone in their metropolitan area. If someone would've asked, I'd said like "120k".
should be cool enough to have the windows open and leave a fan running overnight
Yeah of course (even without the fan), but my roommate needs it to feel like Antarctica inside. Actually, I think it was set so low that it broke the AC. It doesn't seem to be coming on now. Thank god.
Yeah, the London City Hall is a disgrace. An embarrassment.
The Leeds City Council house is neat. Surprised that there are only 99 councillors (compared to 67 in Turku), and that Labour has such a big absolute majority.
edit: Hmm, Helsinki has only 85.
Until 2011 it was under the control of a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition. Since the Tories came to power, Labour have regained a majority on the council - mostly because the Liberal Democrat vote collapsed, and most of them went to Labour.
But Labour's majority in Leeds isn't that big. Manchester City Council for example has 96 councillors - all but one of them are Labour. In 2015, all 96 councillors were Labour! First past the post in action.
yeah, Leeds doesn't have many councillors for such a big council. Manchester is smaller than Leeds but has only 3 fewer councillors.
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