Gains in New York
City and its suburbs account for the vast majority of the state's job growth in the past few years, according to an August report by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.
Not exact matches
According to the Chicago Tribune, if you take into
account the entire greater Chicago area — the
city and the
suburbs, extending into Wisconsin
and Indiana — it has lost over 6,000 people.
This
accounts for the large percentage of the state population taken up by New York
City and its
suburbs (usually estimated at about 60 %, depending on which counties are included as
suburbs).
The report seemed designed to balance the interests of businesses
and wealthy people in New York
City, which
account for the bulk of the state's corporate
and income taxes, with Cuomo's desire to provide broad - based relief in the
suburbs and upstate.
Neither Minneapolis nor St. Paul are particularly massive
cities on their own (the former just barely makes the list of the 50 most populous
cities in the country, between Tulsa
and Colorado Springs), but put together with their
suburbs, they're the 15th most populous metropolitan area in the country
and account for three of every five Minnesota citizens.
As long as homeowners in affluent
suburbs are allowed to benefit from the high density of
cities (where they tend to work or find business
and social networks) without
accounting for the higher costs of public services to support it, they will continue to be barriers to inexpensive housing in their jurisdictions.
Energy - gobbling buildings, air - polluting cars, sprawling
suburbs, carbon - spewing power plants —
cities account for more than 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions
and two - thirds of the world's energy use.
Zillow's survey on living costs in
cities vs
suburbs takes into
account not just how much you pay for housing, but also square footage, commute times,
and how much things like childcare costs.
To evaluate how the cost of car insurance for drivers in Orlando vary based on where they live, our analysis took into
account 29 neighborhoods within the
city and 16
suburbs surrounding it.