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There was some report published here a few years ago that I'm too lazy to look up that did it cost analysis of City infrastructure and found that cities make money in the highly dense impoverished areas and lose money in the Richer areas simply because of the cost of distance that roads, pipes, cops, etc have to travel down.

That, of course reminded me of the New Orleans shotgun and the reason for it: for a while, property taxes were based on linear frontage feet, directly proportional to the length of the road in front of the house, because that was its cost to the government according to the rational French...