What do people in hamilton prefer?

[adam]

Over 300,000 people live in lower Hamilton. The remaining 200,000 live in vast amounts of land on the mountain, near Burlington, etc, etc, etc,. That takes us up to 500,000. If we take it a step further so we can get 700,000... this will add HUGE amounts of land with low density suburban sprawl.

These regions you'd like to add come with a huge per capita cost for the city in roads, sewers, etc, etc What do these areas have to offer the city? The downtown has lead pipes in many areas, and yet these new suburban areas that want to get the label "Megacity" demand all the newest infrastructure and if there is a single pothole in the road they cry bloody murder. How is this fair to the city? Every km. of infrastructure that is laid down in these suburban areas comes at a cost per tax payer that is much higher than the cost for those living the higher density lower Hamilton area.

What do these other regions have to offer us? I'm having problems thinking of anything, so please help me out here.