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      <![CDATA[Good questions.  But careful, Paul -- if you keep actually reading the reports and basing your opinions on data, you might wind up with the wrong opinions!
    
    That said, Atlanta does have a rail transit network.
    
    Reminds me of the popular claim that racism was a prime reason white people moved to the suburbs.  If it were true, you'd expect that places like Minneapolis suburbanized significantly less than, say, Detroit.  Didn't happen.
        
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      <![CDATA[The CNT report shows the percentages of working-class household incomes that are spent on housing and transportation in 28 different metro areas. The graph shows that "the combined housing-transportation cost burden for families with incomes between $20,000 and $50,000 is remarkably similar from one area to another" within the U.S. Doesn't that contradict the conventional wisdom that metro areas without rail-transit networks (i.e. Atlanta or Phoenix) impose greater burdens on working families than areas with  them (i.e. Chicago or Boston)?
    
    Another graph in the report shows that combined housing and transportation costs are basically the same fraction of household income anywhere from 10 to 40 miles' distance from the workplace. Isn't that an argument that for someone working a job in Naperville, living in Aurora is effectively the same as living in Rogers park?
    
    Another graph headlined "The U.S. Metro Population is Suburbanizing" actually shows a decades-long _decline_ in the rate of increased suburbanization, and stops at 1996. If we add the 2006 percentage what does that picture look like?
        
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