Originally Posted by
PennyQuilts
You start taxing people further out, you'll see property costs close in go through the roof. And if you don't like having to pay for suburban roads, be prepared to pay your share of all the goods and services trucked into the city. Trying to force people into the city by taxing them to the point where it made sense for them to move has a ton of unintended consequences, including driving off companies that would no longer be able to sell this place to its employees as having a low cost of living. This notion, in my opinion, is foolhardy and would destroy one of the city's best attractions - great place for the price.
No one wants to live crammed into a flat, hot city with iffy public schools in the center of the country where there are no mountains, oceans or Forests, and where there is no airline hub. Toss in the additional traffic and the notion that taxes make it too expensive to even live in the suburbs and you've got just a marketer's dream. Not.
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