- build suburban stuff to increase tax base
- suburban stuff built generates not enough taxes to maintain itself
- repeat as long as possible as infrastructure deteriorates
- ???
- bankruptcy (see Detroit, Flint)
- always blame the poor, especially the urban poor
God OKC is just miles and miles of nothing. And the freeways there are perfectly straight. You have to constantly wonder if you've been shuffled off of the mortal plane into a hell where you just keep driving, endlessly, with no real destination or beauty in sight.
[LOS ANGELES HAS ENTERED THE CHAT]
Jacksonville checking in
Houston is a lot worse than Los Angeles tbh as a person who has lived in both
I refuse to let you compare LA (urban sprawl) and Houston (a bunch of suburbs pretending to be a city).
That's fair. Los Angeles is more like a bunch of cities in a trench coat anyways.
We eat your cities. We eat them all up.
congrats to chicago on becoming the largest city
well that's a bunch of random giant ass-numbers, if you had the popular density with each city then it would mean something to me.
Burger Reich - Endgame DLC
Never realized Boston looks like a fucked up sniper rifle
Looks like a fucked up map of Europe to me
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