Do Cities Subsidize Rural Lifestyles?

Do rural and exurban areas feed at the trough of all the wealth and innovation cities create? Turns out the answer isn't so simple. ---------- CityNerd x The War on Cars, live at Hunter College's historic Assembly Hall in New York City! January 31, 2025 at 7pm. Tickets at this link: https://bit.ly/497U6oB ---------- CityNerd is on Nebula, the creator-owned streaming service, ad-free! Using my custom link gets you 40% off an annual subscription, and really helps the channel! https://go.nebula.tv/citynerd Also STILL available: the Lifetime offer! $300 for Nebula as long as both you and Nebula exist, and a full 1/3 of the price goes directly to support this channel. https://go.nebula.tv/lifetime?ref=citynerd And! Gift cards -- get the same deals using my code, but gift a membership to someone who needs weekly (ad-free and promo-free) Nerd propaganda! http://gift.nebula.tv/citynerd ---------- Patreon — a way to directly support my ability to talk about what I want to talk about every week, and get out to the cities I want to highlight. Much appreciation to all of you who are already patrons! https://www.patreon.com/CityNerd ---------- Previous CityNerd videos referenced: - Self-Identified Rurality: https://youtu.be/6q_BE5KPp18 ---------- Resources: - https://www.bea.gov/news/2024/gross-domestic-product-county-and-metropolitan-area-2023 - https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-counties-total.html - https://gis.hillsboro-oregon.gov/Html5Viewer/index.html?viewer=Semiconductorcluster - https://www.hillsboro-oregon.gov/our-city/departments/economic-development - https://www.fnal.gov/ - https://www.lanl.gov/about - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_County,_Texas - https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-elected-official-texas-smallest-184838123.html - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/loving-county-texas-voter-fraud-claims-rcna35791 ---------- Images - Sutro Tower By Dllu - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65911699 - St. Louis Union Station By Dustin Batt - IMG_0693, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45142546 - North Slope Borough map By USGS - U.S. Geological Survey 2002 Petroleum Resource Assessment of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA), Fig. 1, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4601893 ---------- Instagram: @nerd4cities BlueSky: @nerd4cities Threads: @nerd4cities ---------- Music: CityNerd background: Caipirinha in Hawaii by Carmen María and Edu Espinal (YouTube music library) ---------- Business Inquiries: thecitynerd@nebula.tv