Are cities the new countries?
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#2> "When we talk about countries, it's often about what separates us, language and culture. But when you talk about cities, we face very similar challenges."
Yeah, and big consumer companies (FMCG and the like) have already noticed that for a while and approach regional markets with high density populations the same way - they are are indeed many more shared needs than differences. Once you go out of the metropolitan areas, however, you see way more differences driven by local cultures.
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#3I wish we can have real city states as I think they have a lot of advantages over large-central states. Easier accountability of the governments, easier mobility and probably less trade restrictions.
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#4Interesting. My group of friends seem to routinely come back to the topic of the UK becoming a federation of city-states.
Seems we're not the only ones thinking that way.
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#5I wish we can have real city states as I think they have a lot of advantages over large-central states. Easier accountability of the governments, easier mobility and probably less trade restrictions.
When you think that the New York Metropolitan Area has a bigger GDP than Russia, what you are suggesting (real city states) starts to actually make sense.
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#7I wish we can have real city states as I think they have a lot of advantages over large-central states. Easier accountability of the governments, easier mobility and probably less trade restrictions.
When you think that the New York Metropolitan Area has a bigger GDP than Russia, what you are suggesting (real city states) starts to actually make sense.
Why so?
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#8Interesting. My group of friends seem to routinely come back to the topic of the UK becoming a federation of city-states. Seems we're not the only ones thinking that way.
Perhaps not a federation of city states, but I would definitely be in favour of a federation of England/Scotland/Wales/NI/Dependencies - perhaps even with London as a separate federal part
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#9Interesting. My group of friends seem to routinely come back to the topic of the UK becoming a federation of city-states. Seems we're not the only ones thinking that way.
Perhaps not a federation of city states, but I would definitely be in favour of a federation of England/Scotland/Wales/NI/Dependencies - perhaps even with London as a separate federal part
Certainly, that alone would be a move in the right direction.
> London as a separate federal part
Not the first time I've heard the suggestion of ejecting London from the Union :)
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps not a federation of city states, but I would definitely be in favour of a federation of England/Scotland/Wales/NI/Dependencies - perhaps even with London as a separate federal part
Certainly, that alone would be a move in the right direction. > London as a separate federal part Not the first time I've heard the suggestion of ejecting London from the Union :)
My first real introduction to UK politics was listening to an only mildly tipsy ex-London mayor rant about how if he could, he'd gladly "pay the rest of the UK £10 billion to go fuck itself, and get us towed out into the mid-Atlantic and declared an independent city state."
This impressed me on several levels. :-)