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1337JiveTurkey
Feb 17, 2005

Smudgie Buggler posted:

Um, yeeeeeeees, but how is a random town the same thing as a suburb of a major city.

I feel like I'm missing something. Do suburban areas in America tend not to belong to the same municipality as the city proper or something?

Yep. Cities are generally separate administrative units from the counties they're within which is where the inner suburbs usually are. The outer suburbs can stretch across several counties with their own municipal and county-level governments. So while people will say the company The Home Depot is headquartered in Atlanta, it's actually in Cobb county to the northwest and is either in the city of Vinings or unincorporated Cobb county. I don't remember which. The county has actually fought tooth and nail to keep a rail transit line from being built to the area where the headquarters is so it's a massive clusterfuck.

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