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That paywall just led to me blacklisting the entire economist.com domain at extension level. Too bad. Don't do paywalls like that please.
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My understanding is that a city boundary in the US is a big deal. The police force on either side can be completely different, things that can get you in a lot of trouble like gun laws can be different on either side, prices and taxes can be very different. In the UK a city boundary doesn't really mean anything. There might be a nice 'Welcome to X' sign but nothing really changes as it would in the US. I'm not even s…
It depends a lot I think. London's an interesting case, because depending on what part of London you're in you're dealing with a totally different police force - in the City of London, there's the City of London police but this only covers the square mile. Most of London is policed by the Metropolitan Police. Administratively, the City of London and everything else in London it's totally separate. The City has The Lo…
It's a less extreme version of what happens in Rome with the Vatican, which is a completely different country.
But in either case, it's just one inclave. The article talks about jigsaws happening in almost every city.
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Then it's a bad rule and we need to petition our benevolent overlord's to strike it from the charter.
Can't read the article because the economist Saya I've read my free monthly limit. If the article is about governmental districts, it's because Americans are predisposed to having lots of small localized governments. Don't like what the guys 5 miles over are doing? Incorporate a township and run your own government.
load the page. hit esc before it's fully loaded. works for me, although, it maybe because i have a slow internet so it takes a while for the page to fully load...
My understanding is that a city boundary in the US is a big deal. The police force on either side can be completely different, things that can get you in a lot of trouble like gun laws can be different on either side, prices and taxes can be very different. In the UK a city boundary doesn't really mean anything. There might be a nice 'Welcome to X' sign but nothing really changes as it would in the US. I'm not even s…
It depends a lot I think. London's an interesting case, because depending on what part of London you're in you're dealing with a totally different police force - in the City of London, there's the City of London police but this only covers the square mile. Most of London is policed by the Metropolitan Police. Administratively, the City of London and everything else in London it's totally separate. The City has The Lo…
Can't read the article because the economist Saya I've read my free monthly limit. If the article is about governmental districts, it's because Americans are predisposed to having lots of small localized governments. Don't like what the guys 5 miles over are doing? Incorporate a township and run your own government.
load the page. hit esc before it's fully loaded. works for me, although, it maybe because i have a slow internet so it takes a while for the page to fully load...
Depends on my connection speed
> The county is home to 88 incorporated cities, ranging in population from 76 (Vernon) to 3.9m (Los Angeles itself). Beverly Hills (population 34,506) is its own city, with its own police force, fire department and school district. So is Santa Monica (92,495). Even Vernon has a police department, with some 50-odd staff. Am I misreading this? How/why does a city of 76 have a police dept with 50 people?
You don't have to live in the city to work for the city.
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It does make more of a difference than you think, though as you say it's nowhere near as marked as America. My city, Nottingham, likes volunteering to trial things. So we were the first or one of the first cities to have average speed cameras years ago, we also introduced a workspace parking levy. The former has gone nationwide, but the latter hasn't been adopted anywhere else. The planners in Nottingham also love tr…
Right but that's comparing a city in the north to a city miles away in the south. We're talking about the immediate boundary between outside a city and inside a city, aren't we? My local city is Chester, and I couldn't even tell you where the limit of Chester is now - I presume it's no longer the old Roman walls. When you cross that boundary wherever it is, nothing changes. It's still the same local government author…
Some of the UK cities used to have their own police forces too ([2], [3]), it's just more efficient (and probably resolves some fun legal challenges around jurisdiction) not to do that any more (see sibling comment for the City of London/Met but London's strange anyway). Until 1975, Glasgow had its own police force [2] with the surrounding areas covered by other forces, and relatively recently [1] had a dispute about its administrative boundary (again, likely for the purposes of tax - it moved which council was responsible for a shopping centre).
1: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1973915.stm
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Glasgow_Police
> The county is home to 88 incorporated cities, ranging in population from 76 (Vernon) to 3.9m (Los Angeles itself). Beverly Hills (population 34,506) is its own city, with its own police force, fire department and school district. So is Santa Monica (92,495). Even Vernon has a police department, with some 50-odd staff. Am I misreading this? How/why does a city of 76 have a police dept with 50 people?
Wow! Trying to spread democracy in the world, when you have little dictators in your own backyard.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon,_California#Elections_o...
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Isn’t there a welcome to Wales sign on one side of the city? I always find it fun driving over the border and suddenly you can araf at the gwasanethau for a paned o de.
But that's because you're leaving the country , not because you're leaving the city. The city boundary isn't relevant there - the country boundary is.