Reply to a comment  Reply to this comment  bigredmachine writes:
in response to soccerdaddy2003:   The reason Carmel is growing
and Eville is not is simple - people want to live as close to
the city as they can, so they get all the benefit, but not in it
so they don't have to pay taxes.  In Indy, Carmel is the
"county" - the area just outside the city.  Freeloaders in both
cases - county residents and Carmel residents. Neither Carmel
nor Newburgh nor McCutchnville would exist without Indy and
Eville. That's a fact.  Another fact is that cities cost more to
maintain. They have population density, which raises cost, and
they have older infrastructure which is more expensive to
maintain.  The bottom line is that there is no way a city can
compete with a suburb on a cost/benefit ratio and as long as
people are allowed to have the benefit without the cost then
they will. But this is to the detriment of the metro area
overall because the result is sprawl and the decay of the inner
city.  Exactly right. County resi