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Can You Buy A City?
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If you had enough money, could you buy an entire city? Or maybe just a small town? Is something really a city if one person owns all the property?
Resources on this topic:
https://www.loveproperty.com/gallerylist/51810/entire-villages-and-towns-for-sale-that-you-can-actually-buy
https://people.com/home/town-california-campo-sale-16-acres/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0885412213512331?casa_token=orUG7_ojXIIAAAAA:mGWy0fn3nukPe6bOCJENF69De_vi8kU6AIG3wfhAqiRXy-N2D6-8ouS7uakrMA7wZ6uI0AjvEXM
https://www.nyc.gov/assets/finance/downloads/pdf/reports/reports-property-tax/nyc_property_fy22.pdf
https://www.opendatanetwork.com/entity/1600000US2622000/Detroit_MI/finance.michigan_property_tax.total_taxable_value?year=2022
https://www.senate.ga.gov/committees/Documents/CarlVinsonSummaryMunicipalIncorporationProceduresbyState.pdf
Produced by Dave Amos and the fine folks at Nebula Studios.
Written by Dave Amos.
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