Nintendo Kid posted:

Self identification doesn't pay city taxes, and further no one takes you seriously when you live way out of the city all of your life but claim to be from there. Like it's straight up a thing you will get mocked for.

Most people don't see areas 20 miles outside the limits of the innermost suburbs to be the city.

They're not going to be more common, because people understand what cities are, and when they're not in them.

Frankly you seem to be really confusing like, the Australian usage of "city" for American usage. Most Australian "cities" have the city proper as tiny, no more than a few miles square central business district with minimal residents, but a measure of unified authority among the many independent towns and "suburbs" that make up the city. In American usage, such an arrangement is just called a metropolitan area (or if the population's small enough, micropolitan area).


Last I heard the official story is that since he had a switchblade he had to be shot multiple times until dead. Something something danger to the cops. They're basically that blatant.