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View original postOne of the unintended but completely predictable consequences of racially seleftive bussing. Not surprisingly anyone who couldn't afford private school instead chose to move to smaller suburbs instead of allowing their children to be bused across town to bad scools.
View original postFrance has a similar "school district" system where people choose to live (or not to live) in particular districts specifically because of the school to which children in that area are supposed to go, and probably not very coincidentally, it also has some of the nastiest ghetto-like suburbs anywhere in Europe, as well as some of the most elite ones.
View original postOne of the many, many ways in which France is the USA of the European continent. The truth hurts, I know. 
Do European Cities Have Suburbs?
- 14/12/2014 08:42:35 PM
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Depends on the city, I suppose.
- 14/12/2014 09:08:09 PM
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I thought Brussels didn't know if it was a suburb of Paris or Köln *NM*
- 15/12/2014 11:50:31 PM
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*NM*
- 15/12/2014 11:50:31 PM
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I think theirs urban areas areblesslikely to be blighted ghettos than ours are.
- 14/12/2014 11:59:53 PM
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What does American busing have to do with European Suburbs? *NM*
- 15/12/2014 01:47:45 AM
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Just that they don't have busing, and thus less incentive to live away from the city
- 15/12/2014 02:15:06 AM
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Seems an unnatural method for describing Europe.
- 15/12/2014 02:58:52 AM
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It's a fair point...
- 15/12/2014 10:24:39 PM
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Now thats just mean *NM*
- 16/12/2014 09:32:44 PM
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What Paul said is my experience too.
- 15/12/2014 11:19:13 AM
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In the US the suburbs are often bigger than the cities and typically much more liveable
- 15/12/2014 02:01:17 PM
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