Show me the line item on a bedroom community city's budget that says "subsidy from self-righteous city dwellers who don't realize the employees of the companies that pay taxes to the city commute from suburbs".
This kind of attitude is not welcome on HN. We are a friendly community that welcomes different opinions/views which are debated in a professional way.
Even so, here [0] is a recent HN article which does a very good job of explaining how suburbs are predicated on an (unsustainable) model of growth.
Do you not see how the constant accusations against suburbanites of leeching off the cities is equally antagonistic? It happens frequently on HN -- someone might post about inefficiencies of suburbs for transportation (often, but not always true) or the use of water for growing food in rural areas, then a bunch of others will pile on with escalating disdain for non-city life. But because the escalation is gradual and the disdain is so popular here, nobody notices that they've slid into an endless pit of belittling the roots of millions of people.
Yeah, occasionally I get a bit frustrated by this topic and it shows in the tone of my comments. Hopefully it illustrates the point, though, that there's a need for nuance and understanding on both sides.
