Hi,
Frankly I'm glad there are those who desire are willing to live in the
cities, there is not enough real estate available to spread us all out in
that mythical bucolic rural setting. I can only hope those who are able to
by choice to live and work in a rural area appreciate the luxury, for the
luxury that that is.
Rural itself has miles and miles of hard road surfaces and associated
storm drainage. There has to as much goods transported into rural areas as
there is transported into urban. Rural also requires both water and waste
treatment. Rural has it's share of stink and noise. Forget some supplies
when in town? May be up to a 15 mile drive to get what you forgot or ran
out of I'm not so sure rural residents really want to see an all
*inclusive* comparison who pay taxes and who receives tax revenue or
receives subsidies. A fact that Cook County receives 90% of the taxes
collected by the State of Illinois is, data insignifica with out knowing,
what percentage of the tax revenue was extracted from Cook County. There
is a good chance it IS rural that can't survive without subsidies, think
carefully about opening that door. Respectfully please don't perpetuate the
myth about the big bad public works. Privatize you may see any savings to
be had going off as profit to some far off investor instead of employing a
neibor.
Doug
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Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 1:52 PM
Subject: [Biofuel] End of Suburbia" and Ruralization
: Pannir,
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: I feel the same as you. The big cities ruin the ecology. The whole premis
that millions of people should live jam packed in a city is wrong.
:
: Cities artificially compensate for the massive overtaxing of the ecology
by building waste water treatment plants, storm water run off systems,
concrete covered streets, and centralized energy distributions systems.
:
: The air stinks, the water has to be clorinated to be made safe, citizens
must travel miles to get a gallon of milk or a loaf of bread.
:
: The total cost of living in a city is subsidized by taxing non-urban
residents. The sole benefit to mankind for living in a city is incorrectly
identified as efficiency.
:
: More jobs, more resources, less transportations costs, less fuel burned,
less air pollution, but that is all bull. Everything needed to live in a
city must be transported into, and within, the city.
:
: I have lived both in big cities and in the countryside. I now live one
mile outside of a small rural town in northern Wisconsin. My one and only
trip to New York city left me wondering why anyone would live there. It was
filthy, noisy, crowded, most of the streets were in disrepair, the subway
trains seemed to drag themselves along the tracks, facades were falling off
the buildings (and killing pedestrians below), the only good thing I found
was the ability to get great food at any hour of the day or night, but that
is little compensation.
:
: Big cities are artificially sustained entities. Take Chicago for example.
Of all the tax revenue collected by the state of Illinois, 90% goes to Cook
county (Chicago). The rest of the state must live off the remaining 10%. If
cities are so efficient, why must they be so heavily subsidized? The reality
is they are not efficient; they are really inefficient public works
projects. :
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