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Old 05-11-2010, 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by knight_shadow View Post
Some cities (particularly, in the South) have plenty of space surrounding them. In the event that they don't, they sometimes take over some of the surrounding cities (IIRC, this happened in San Antonio and Houston).

And it's not necessarily just "dirt-poor" residents that are being displaced -- sometimes, it's "not-as-wealthy" people that are being moved.
Yeah but, in Virginia at least, it's a moot point. Cities aren't allowed to expand by law. They be reshaped, I think, but they have to stay the same size. They can't grow.

But leaving blight where it is doesn't solve the issue of blight either. So why not move it?
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