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Originally Posted by Drybrain
It really is quite weird, and the population that far out is A: very small and B: not especially connected culturally or economically to the city (as they would often be the first to tell you).
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It was maddening in the early years of amalgamation because politicians were obsessed with talking about how it was a mixed municipality full of farmers and fishermen with special needs that required constant significant consideration. If there was transit funding it had to be offset by similar funding for potholes in Musquodoboit. In reality something like 0.5% of people work in primary industries in the HRM, and a lot of the people who claim to be hard done by rural folk are well-off exurbanites who could have moved to a suburb or urban area if they wanted but chose a large lot subdivision knowing exactly what they were getting into. These exurbanites have historically been hugely subsidized by urbanites, who pay much higher taxes per dollar of municipal service provided.