[MrB]

Really?

You really think cities provide some sort of benefit to the rest of the state they’re in?

Others, chime in with your opinions...

[MNDude]

This is worth a vanity of its own.

[x]

I guess it may feel good to say things like that, but dividing up the country to the point where it looks like a Swiss cheese isn't going to be good for anybody.

Having to go through immigration and customs to get from home to office or warehouse to factory would make chaos of production. And indeed, there's no way that such a separation could be effected without it being disastrous.

Metro NYC has a GDP of 1.33 trillion dollars to 1.55 dollars depending on how you measure it. That's greater than all but 12 nations on earth, and I don't think all of that comes from the suburbs.

I was going to say that China would thrive and we would flounder, but since China relies on us to buy their products, they'd have trouble to. You'd have to look at some of our enemies to see who'd benefit.

[DavidLSpud]

Don’t know for sure...How much North Sea oil can Scotland claim...They might be able to float a Socialist Paradise...

for a few years anyway... ( ; )