[vorpalhex]

Police officers scale as calls scale. There's some minimum threshold based on space, but if you have 50 calls at once then you need 50-70 officers. And your manhattan officer doesn't have the option of "let the angry dude kick rocks in a farm field until he gets bored and arrest him". Every fleeing perp becomes a danger to _hundreds_ of other people. Every fired pistol round has a high chance of hitting a bystander. CS gas cylinders are right out.

Same for fire, except now you have a new problem. When a house in New Jacksonville burns, one option is to let it control burn. The home is a loss, but this is a safe and viable option.

You can't do that in our manhattan. The entire city will be on fire.

And fighting a fire on a one floor residential house is easy. Fighting a fire on a 40 floor condo structure is complicated and takes many, many more trucks - and now instead of one home being lost, we are looking at ten or more homes, even if we are successful.

Water distribution to a bunch of little houses is easy if sort of requiring some piping. Distributing to a 40 floor condo building is an expert task requiring a whole mess more of complexity.