[com2kid]

I was replying to the statement that education spending dwarfs infra spending, by providing evidence that the two are on par with each other.

Around where I live, schools are in financial troubles, and infra is in financial trouble, nothing is doing well.

West Coast cities are older (rising costs) while also being low to medium density (low tax base) and honestly outside of LA and SF, don't even have a large population for how much area they take up.

It isn't a great combo.

In regards to city vs school funding, the two are separated in WA state because of how schools are funded, except that cities pass special levies to fill funding gaps, which is a separate political problem.

Of course city residents rarely understand how funding works, and they yell at the city council when schools start falling apart. (Quite a few of the public schools I went to had broken heating and crumbing walls, and from what I grok, the financial situation of the district was better back then compared to now!)