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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rising income inequality means that some areas have become extremely expensive while others have stagnated.

In the 50s and 60s economic growth was more broad-based. Now many second-tier cities like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, even St. Louis have done pretty badly, HQs have moved to places like NYC. Wealth is concentrated in the tech sector, in lawyers, lobbyists and financiers. The places where people like that live have become very expensive as a result.[/quote]

So Trump (even though he is a New Yorker) basically won because of second tier cities?[/quote]

Second-tier cities have only themselves to blame.

Atlanta has been poised for SO LONG to be a preeminent world-class city along the lines of Miami or New York but they keep shooting themselves in the foot. And by they I mean the racist/sexist white governmental class.

1) Threatening to sanction an airline because they wouldn't support the NRA? https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/02/590149921/georgia-lawmakers-punish-delta-air-lines-over-nra-feud
Delta is their biggest tax-revenue creator bar none and you're THREATENING them?

2) Losing out on Amazon HQ2 precisely at the same time because corporations don't like state government overreach and threats.

3) Now they're outlawing abortion past six weeks to any Georgia residents and guess what? The film industry which makes 30 movies/tv shows a year in Georgia is trying to pull out. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/05/hollywood-response-georgia-heartbeat-bill-abortion

Make idiot policies, have idiot results.
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Ahh, kind of like how Seattle passed an anti-Amazon tax?
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/05/seattle-unanimously-passes-its-amazon-tax/560411/

(Yes, I know it was later repealed)

As for Atlanta, its population growth has been 2-3x the DC area. It's gaining about 1 million residents per decade:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_metropolitan_area

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Atlanta's population growth and massive sprawl is turning it into Houston not New York. Adding in so many collective 'cities' into their metro area means their tax revenue base is stagnant and anything along the West/South lines remains low income.

Read about the phenomenon of Georgia 'cities' incorporating to keep their tax revenue base to themselves and see just how this is affecting Atlanta revenue prospectives long-term - https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/03/tale-of-new-cities/555263/[/quote]

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