In some ways it is interesting to watch. Many in the county say the city is out of control and its people are bad and don't we in the county seem better? Look we have no decay. Then you drive around the county and see the remnants of the throw away communities, where the middle class has evacuated moving on to greener pastures, never helping to maintain what they have. Its a certain smugness to think that you are always on the winning team, when you actually have little input into the making of the place. Since the end of the 2nd war. New and "better neighborhoods are made by developers. People move in, then due to older generations dying off and their offspring moving on, that area becomes 2nd rate. Since the 2nd war true towns are no longer being minted. In their place are settlements with no feeling that the citizens will be there when the going gets tough. A true town provided safety, security, amenities. These new settlements offer amenities nothing else.