[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by getbak

So, how do these other large cities deal with the surrounding "leech" cities? Detroit and Buffalo have already been given as examples of cities where the core of the city has basically dried up and almost all of the population (and wealth) lives outside of the actual city, but other cities seem to do relatively well for themselves.

I think the difference is, in these metro cities, you have industries and workers in each of these neighbouring cities, so overall you do not have one city leeching more than others. Services are spread throughout. The inflow and outflow is about the same. Calgary is a bit different because you have bedroom communities who are basically a cluster of suburban neighbourhoods and little else.

Like a poster mentioned, to somewhat mitigate for this, Calgarians should really be going more to these neighbouring towns and utilizing some of their services. I think the big thing we as Calgarians can take advantage of are the hospitals and clinics in these bedroom communities since wait times in Calgary are so bad. At least this way we can spread it out a bit more.