09-12-2018, 04:15 PM
Which is a bit funny to an extent, when people say that they love township living when no, in fact, they love aspects of it divorced from reality. There isn't the industry, office or heavy, to support employment needed by those populations, nor many services from ones like hospitals and police, to libraries, to services and retail. Many of those are "borrowed" from the cities, and if you plunked one of the townships down truly as just a township without a reasonable ability to borrow these necessities from outside its borders, it just wouldn't work. Then again, we all do this in different ways: the neighbourhoods around UpTown love being close to UpTown, they just don't want the core of a major city to actually have other people living nearby. We want to have good assets like hospitals and libraries and courthouses, but we don't like to deal with the realities of those living in poverty or with substance abuse or mental health issues. Too often we act like we should be able to pick and choose only what is best for us, and toss away responsibility for the things we don't like as much, even when they are absolutely essential.