Do people who live in bigger cities rely on the government more than folks who live in rural areas?

Question

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Answer 1

I don't know if rely is the best way to put it, but people in cities get more bang for the buck I think. I live in a rural area. The roads don't get graded, no snow is plowed on the weekends, no fire department and if you need the police you had better to be able to hold your own for about an hour. We get far less for services while paying no less in taxes. People in the city get public transportations, paved roads, school options, fire, police, hospitals, etc. I get to see wolves so I guess it evens out.

Answer 2

It really depends. The poorest areas in the state I live in are rural areas, meaning more people are on some sort government aid to be able to survive. Also, the areas that usually flood are in rural areas meaning the government has to come in to clean up and get things back to normal.

Don't forget about the farmers who make over a million dollars a year, but still get ag subsidies.

Answer 3

Yes
I live in a place so small it's called a community with it's own sign-
We are protected by the volunteer fire/rescue squad
There is no trash pick up
There is no public housing
The sheriff's department might make an appearance 2x a month- I live on the county line- and neither sheriff's dept is real keen on responding in my experience
if you buy land out here- you're paying for your own water hook up there aren't any available
Some land doesn't even have power/telephone cables
There is no high speed Internet yet-
In my area, it's 30 miles to the closest town ( I make the drive everyday for work) and the people who most need assistance have been raised not to take handouts (even from the government) . Now some of that cando attitude is because these are mountain folk who have survived out here with only one way in for centuries. The church (churches /plural /out here there is one on every corner) takes a really large role of taking care of the people who need help.
When you live in the outskirts- you learn to do alot for yourself because there is no one to do it for you.

Answer 4

Well in cities and small towns alike people live on welfare, you also have many farmers that operate on government subsidies, yet in cities you have many big corporations who rely on government subsidies. To me I think it is a toss up. Also interesting fact Northeastern states pay more in taxes and recieve less in return from the government than rural southern states. Example for every dollar NY, NJ or PA pays the government in taxes they receive less than 75 cents. In states like Georgia Alabama and texas for every buck they pay they get back more than a dollar from the government.

Answer 5

Not really.
Rural areas cannot spread the cost of services over the population as well and tend to offer less, which causes their poor to migrate into cities to be near services.

So no - they rely MORE on government services in that they pass their obligations of support to the mentally ill, elderly, and poor on to the cities.

Poor people in cities have more services available to serve them. Obviously, with the large number of homeless - not all are taking advantage of them, or they are not supporting the poor and mentally ill adequately. But they do have services.

Answer 6

Farm subsidies. So nope. People in cities also pay huge property taxes compared to rural folks because they need more police, fire and other public services.

Answer 7

The literature on rural poverty indicates that rural welfare
families may be more vulnerable than their urban counterparts due to the work focus and timelimited
nature of TANF. Vulnerability may be greater in rural areas because there are fewer work opportunities, greater barriers to obtaining employment, and fewer options available to replace welfare. Early evidence indicates that, in the time since welfare reform, caseload levels, unemployment rates for the working age poor, and child poverty rates have all declined, but that rural areas are faring worse than urban or suburban areas (Bosley and Mills 1999, Rural Policy
Research Institute 1999). In fact, although both rural and urban unemployment rates declined each year since 1992, the rural-urban gap increased, with unemployment falling more slowly in rural than in urban areas.
The rural poor are more geographically dispersed than the urban poor, making it more difficult for rural residents to access social services that can assist them in finding work or supports needed to remain employed.

Although America's antipoverty efforts were rooted in concerns about conditions in rural areas, virtually all current policy debates center on the urban poor. Yet, poverty rates are higher in rural areas, unemployment is greater, and there is less earnings growth than in urban labor markets.

Answer 8

This is an economies of scale question.

Urban centers are able to provide MORE services, but at less per capita than the Fewer services of rural dwellers

Answer 9

No I've lived in NYC and one the most rural counties of NYS and not only are people on welfare in both areas, but agriculture relies heavily on gov't subsidies.

Answer 10

Yes

I currently live outside of Houston in a community - not a city or even a town - we have no police department, no fire department, we have gravel and dirt roads, we have no trash pickup. When something needs to be done the community gets together to do it

A couple years ago they needed to upgrade the small well system they had in "town" and held an election for an "honorary Mayor", the person who raised the most money became Honorary Mayor and in the end they raised enough money for the upgrade. No politicians lining their pockets or making false promises, just good ole God loving country folk trying to be helping kind neighborly people