Are you annoyed by lumping entire metro areas in with the central city?

[afleitch]

No.

I'll say it again - suburbs are part of the city because they look to the city for work, for entertainment and services. They provide the city with money and should help pay for the financing of the city. Casting out the suburbs, or having them sit beyond the city boundary for political reasons, does not change the fact that they 'look' to the city. What it does change is that they will continue to use the cities infrastructure, it's roads, its public transport, throw litter on the streets that the city has to pay to pick up etc...but not contribute to the city financially (at least directly through taxation)

As most of you know I live just outside a city which in nearly every other set up I should be living in. As a result you have the poorest city in Scotland surrounded by towns and suburbs from Bearsden, to Bothwell to Newton Mearns that are amongst the nations richest.

The Glasgow Metropolitan area has around 1.25 to 1.5 million inhabitants depending on definition. The city proper has just 600,000