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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
which is why, to do this right, you'd ideally do a city/county merger.
there's more than enough affluence & good old fashioned middle class stability in northern, northwestern, western, and southwestern cook county to offset the pockets of suburban poverty in western & southern cook county.
not that it will ever happen, but that's how the deal should go down, in a perfect world.
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Right... I imagine the situation is somewhat similar throughout cities in the "rustbelt' in the northeast and midwest.
Pittsburgh-Allegheny is probably THE poster child for it.
Allegheny County has 130 municipalities! WTF? I think aside from Cook County, it has the most of any county in the US. That's ridiculous for city/county the size of the Pittsburgh area.
Look at all of those tiny places along the river valleys and city border (City of Pittsburgh is #89)
It would make zero sense for the City to annex the most of the bordering small boroughs and former steel towns of the Monongahela Valley because they would be nothing but a burden, but consolidation of City and County would bring in some of the wealthiest areas in the state of Pennsylvania.
