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JustJeff88 posted:I'm tempted to stop by the soon-to-be-former TRU near me and buy a Lego set, just for old time's sake. Don't - liquidators jack up the prices then discount them from the jacked up rates to entice people to pay more than they would have if there wasn't a liquidation fire sale.
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Liquidations sales are good if you need to buy shelves and fixtures and poo poo but are terrible for just about everything else.
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Motronic posted:Your quote applies to both cities equally as well. Yeah but Philly’s not literally built in the middle of the desert at climate change ground zero
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Blockbuster is closing one of their last locations in Alaska. http://www.ktuu.com/content/news/South-Anchorage-Blockbuster-set-to-close-478433393.html This goes to show how far behind AK is in every sense of the modern world.
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cis autodrag posted:Leave the northeast sometime. Most cities in Wisconsin have farm fields dotted throughout. Just because some place with 500 people calls itself a "city" doesn't it make it so - their residents also consider a man made out of wax and lovely ham sandwiches a good governor. KiteAuraan posted:Phoenix is the 5th largest city in the nation and has numerous farmland areas within city limits. Even more if you count the entire metropolitan area. An outlier yes, but it's not unknown. Phoenix is just a pile of poo poo development haphazardly assembled, full of terrible people. It's at least good that a lot of the eventual development area was put within city limits because hypothetically a good city government could use that for good development but as it stands they've barely done so.
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I breezed through a TRU outlet looking for board games and they didn't have any. Probably should have done something constructive like make a vaporwave video.HEY NONG MAN posted:Blockbuster is closing one of their last locations in Alaska. In Alaska we say howdy-do In L.A we say yo They'll say it in Alaska too In twenty years or so.
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fishmech posted:Just because some place with 500 people calls itself a "city" doesn't it make it so - their residents also consider a man made out of wax and lovely ham sandwiches a good governor. You realize that Wisconsin has actual cities right? Or does a mid-size city like Madison not count? I live in the Twin Cities area in Minnesota, and same poo poo here. Tons of cities have actual farm land; especially the outer ring suburbs. This is especially so because those outer-ring suburbs rely on buying out that very farmland to actually expand. And those aren't 500 population stuff either; we're talking 10s of thousands pushing up towards 100k.
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Raldikuk posted:You realize that Wisconsin has actual cities right? Or does a mid-size city like Madison not count? I live in the Twin Cities area in Minnesota, and same poo poo here. Tons of cities have actual farm land; especially the outer ring suburbs. This is especially so because those outer-ring suburbs rely on buying out that very farmland to actually expand. And those aren't 500 population stuff either; we're talking 10s of thousands pushing up towards 100k. If you're an "outer ring suburb" you're not much of a city, bro. You're... an outer ring suburb of a city. Also when I go look at actual Madison, most of the farmland within the city is part of UW Madison's agricultural research stations. And a lot of farmland that appears to be in Madison is in fact just over the border of the city, often with the border of Madison's annexations being just at the edge of actively cultivated fields. PS: If you have "tens of thousands" of residents that's not a city. It's not 4th millenium BC anymore, we got iron now. No one is impressed by your lovely temple or your broke rear end priest-king.
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fishmech posted:If you're an "outer ring suburb" you're not much of a city, bro. You're... an outer ring suburb of a city. Then please enlighten us on your definition of city. Apparently a city of 70k isn't a city because 1) it doesn't have enough people 2) it has other cities nearby. Both are absurd, no? Also lol at all the dancing about who owns or uses Madison's farmland, you realize that is indeed admitting that it has farmland? So now you need to try and argue that either Madison is also not a city, or that farmland doesn't actually satisfy the definition of farmland.
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Oh I was wrong he IS going to write thousands of words about what a city is and isn’t in his addled brain. Sick. I love it.
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Raldikuk posted:Then please enlighten us on your definition of city. Apparently a city of 70k isn't a city because 1) it doesn't have enough people 2) it has other cities nearby. Both are absurd, no? Any shitheap that calls itself an outer ring suburb definitely isn't a city. Also yeah pretty much nowhere under 100k even begins to count unless it's some poo poo like you're Iceland and 100k people means 1/3 of your whole country. People from the upjumped suburban sprawl of America kinda need to accept that it's not impressive that you have both an Arby's AND a Subway AND a local theater troupe who plays one weekend a month in the high school gym, you know? It's a tiny bit of farmland that's almost entirely owned by a university. It's thus not a bunch of available leased farmland someone's going to go around. But yeah Madison's a shitheap like the rest of its whole area. Ruled by the ham sandwich golem the Kochs anointed.
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fishmech posted:Any shitheap that calls itself an outer ring suburb definitely isn't a city. Also yeah pretty much nowhere under 100k even begins to count unless it's some poo poo like you're Iceland and 100k people means 1/3 of your whole country. People from the upjumped suburban sprawl of America kinda need to accept that it's not impressive that you have both an Arby's AND a Subway AND a local theater troupe who plays one weekend a month in the high school gym, you know? That's a great list of exclusions. What's your definition?
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Raldikuk posted:That's a great list of exclusions. What's your definition? New York City is the best one on Earth, what's your block of tract homes got to argue for it? Really you're not even worth considering if there's no non-antenna structure at least 550 feet high in it.
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fishmech posted:Any shitheap that calls itself an outer ring suburb definitely isn't a city. Also yeah pretty much nowhere under 100k even begins to count unless it's some poo poo like you're Iceland and 100k people means 1/3 of your whole country. People from the upjumped suburban sprawl of America kinda need to accept that it's not impressive that you have both an Arby's AND a Subway AND a local theater troupe who plays one weekend a month in the high school gym, you know? generally the statutory legal concept of city is related to the incorporation of an administrative division in a state or province; it is highly dependent on the area of incorporation and the amount of responsibilities and governing authority and not necessarily population dependent this is entirely separate from whatever colloquial definition of a city that you've cooked up
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exploded mummy posted:generally the statutory legal concept of city is related to the incorporation of an administrative division in a state or province; it is highly dependent on the area of incorporation and the amount of responsibilities and governing authority and not necessarily population dependent Re: whatever garbage suburb you're trying to defend:  Stacking some people together doesn't make you a city, and merely being incorporated really doesn't - for instance Canada often just requires that you have a few thousand people across the area in question to have "city" status while the residents are well aware they aren't living in a city.
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Fishmech I posit that Wilmington, Delaware, qualifies as a city under all the most stringent definitions.
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fishmech posted:Re: whatever garbage suburb you're trying to defend: Boston is a garbage suburb? Wow that's harsh.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Fishmech I posit that Wilmington, Delaware, qualifies as a city under all the most stringent definitions. It's an overgrown office park. It's basically the same population as Cherry Hill, only instead of the big mall there's more stubby offices.
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fishmech posted:It's an overgrown office park. It's basically the same population as Cherry Hill, only instead of the big mall there's more stubby offices. It has a condensed downtown, it has history going back to the 17th century.
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exploded mummy posted:Boston is a garbage suburb? every city east of the mississippi is a suburb of New York City, every city west of the rockies is a suburb of Los San Frangelego and every city in between is a suburb of Chicago.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:It has a condensed downtown, it has history going back to the 17th century. 17th century history is nothing special in the area. My hometown was founded in 1677 and was once a provincial/colonial and state capital, still has a condensed downtown - it's just been a small town and then a suburb ever since the late 19th century though.
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Hometown? Sounds like a homevillage based on that description lmao
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Maybe even a home-hamlet lmbo
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HEY NONG MAN posted:Hometown? Sounds like a homevillage based on that description lmao Yeah it's pretty small time.
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Americans can't organise cities anyway. I'd lived in the USA for over a year before I realised the city I'm in is not just one city administratively, but 4-5 tiny 'cities' clustered around one actual city which is unable to annex them because they're on the other side of county lines and one is over a state line, while the actual city annexes towns and suburbs further and further west without filling the missing gaps in the middle, creating awful border gore because 'those people' might not vote for the current mayor so they're intentionally left beyond technical city limits. It's a clusterfuck that makes no sense.
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i am harry posted:It isn't a city if it doesn't have a cathedral. Ah yes, the great city of St Asaph, population 3500
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DC Murderverse posted:every city east of the mississippi is a suburb of New York City, every city west of the rockies is a suburb of Los San Frangelego and every city in between is a suburb of Chicago. Chicago is east of the Mississippi.
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Your metropolis sucks and is irrelevant.
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Hungry posted:Americans can't organise cities anyway. this clusterfuck is by design, to entrench structural racism and segregation
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SimonCat posted:Chicago is east of the Mississippi. Yeah; hence why Dallas is a better choice
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Hungry posted:It's a clusterfuck that makes no sense. Let's be honest here that's an accurate description of humanity in general.
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Yeah; hence why Dallas is a better choice Dallas is never the right choice.
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Hungry posted:I'd lived in the USA for over a year before I realised the city I'm in is not just one city administratively, but 4-5 tiny 'cities' clustered around one actual city
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New York City was forward thinking via outright seizing 5 counties (in two cases by splitting off a chunk of an existing county along existing town borders). This sudden burst method in 1898 minimized issues with pesky exclaves and enclaves and stick-in-the-mud towns demanding to stay independent despite being surrounded by the rest of the city trying to take them. Similarly, Philly did quite well to seize and merge the county to the city and start from a fairly respectable size for a county. Really they didn't seize enough as it turns out, but this wouldn't show up as an issue til over 100 years later, you can't have perfect planning that far
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What happening this thre... Oh, fishmech happening this thread.
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