Suburbanites Who Claim the City Proper (building, transportation, rail, living)
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Is it? One can move to the city, nobody can stop you. I can't go get a degree from Harvard.
He/she seems to have the assumption that to most people living in the big city is more desirable than the suburb and that is why people say the big city name.
Maybe that is true for some cities like San Francisco and New York City but I don't believe it is for the majority. I have met people from just outside Shreveport who say "I live in Shreveport" out of ease not because the city has some great reputation, which it doesn't (not to bash, I actually liked the place myself when I visited).
Because a suburb is a part of the city. There are no real boundaries that divide a city from it's suburbs.
Taxes, school districts, crime rates. Often transit, urbanity.
Maybe my perception is skewed by having grown up in NYC, and living in Chicago, Boston and Pittsburgh. With the exception of the core Boston area towns (Cambridge, Sommerville and Brookline) there's a substantial difference between those cities and their suburbs.
Because a suburb is a part of the city. There are no real boundaries that divide a city from it's suburbs.
But there are.
I have heard people complain about suburbanites coming into the city and taking advantage of what it offers, while not contributing at all via taxes, etc.
I have heard people complain about suburbanites coming into the city and taking advantage of what it offers, while not contributing at all via taxes, etc.
How much truth is there, though, to those complaints? Last I checked, Texan cities mainly get revenue from property and sales tax. Property tax is mostly paid by residents but sales tax, I assume, would be paid by anyone who makes any sort of applicable purchases (since some items are tax free).
Plus, there are plenty of people who live in, say, Dallas who go to the suburbs to enjoy whatever they may have.
I have heard people complain about suburbanites coming into the city and taking advantage of what it offers, while not contributing at all via taxes, etc.
I'm assuming you're talking about the 20-35 group. They as a group increase property values, the landlords property tax increase but they pass that on with rent prices. They also don't usually have kids in the school systems.
Taxes, school districts, crime rates. Often transit, urbanity.
Maybe my perception is skewed by having grown up in NYC, and living in Chicago, Boston and Pittsburgh. With the exception of the core Boston area towns (Cambridge, Sommerville and Brookline) there's a substantial difference between those cities and their suburbs.
There's a huuuuge difference between NYC and its suburbs for sure. Just crossing over the Nassau/Queens border you see a pretty big difference right away.
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