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Originally Posted by moon
If I move to Calgary I sure as hell don't want to be forced into to moving into a high density inner city area because some whiney inner city citizens don't like paying taxes that go to pay for needed roads in the suburbs.
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I agree with the notion that you have every right to live in the suburbs. Every right.
But...
You better be prepared to pay for all those infrastructure requirements needed out there. All of them. Inner-city residents have little to no need to go out to these areas; but, suburbanites do have a need to come to the inner-city. Hence, any dollar spent inner-city is theoretically a more efficient dollar spent.
The real travesty in all this is that inner-city residents have to pay higher taxes than outer-city residents and essentially are funding areas they never use. The suburbanites are getting the sweet end of the deal here, no question. And this doesn't even begin to cover the long-term environmental costs of the decisions for people to live that far out.
As an example, I've lived inner-city all my life. Our roads have been paid off long ago; yet, they get infinitely more used than roads in the outer areas due to the amount of people commuting from the outer areas to work on a daily basis.
It's really just about proportion of taxes. Outer-city residents should theoretically be paying more in taxes to live where they do for obvious reasons. People can choose to live inner-city; in fact, hundreds of millions of people in this world do it in cities all over the world. There's absolutely nothing wrong with living inner-city. In fact, it's going to be the trend of the future.