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Originally Posted by Muta
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.
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It was like that when you moved there! There was a choice made to live downtown or inner city and pay higher taxes, live in a property that most likely cost more $$ psf, would also increase more in $$ value than somewhere in the suburbs. Deal with it. If you don't like it and want to live somewhere that pays less taxes move. I don't use public transport yet taxes pay for that. I'm no longer in school yet I have to pick where my tax dollars (which school system) go to, my office might move from downtown to the NW and when that happens I'm not going to whine about my taxes and the roads I don't use, I'm also not going to whine about the bridge because I really don't care.
Interesting, I was about to type that caring seems to be a waste of time, that I'm too busy doing other things to care about this. I think it's true. I don't care.
