UK Cities and Residence - An initial analysis
Huey George
Introduction
From Day 3,468 you have been able to set your residence in one of the towns and cities of the new World. I'm not going to cover "how cities work?" as you can read here this here: https://www.erepublik.com/en/main/latest-updates
However I thought I'd look at some initial demographics and economy figures from our UK cities as I'm interested in tracking how this information changes... especially once the local government aspect of cities is introduced.
Not sure how often the statistics presented in this article will update however I took them shortly after day change into Day 3,470.
Initial Analysis
Demographics
Early days...with most of our cities remaining with a large migratory populace however London, Leeds and Edinburgh are attracting the most citizens and no citizen as of yet has decided to reside in Belfast initially. This most likely as a result of citizens choosing to reside near their holding companies. No registered voters in any city yet as this "button" has not been added yet.
Economy
No change to house durability initially as all UK cities remain with the classification of "Town". Also no change to Property Tax as it is set by the mayor and the city council and elections are yet to be held for these new local government postions.
No change to Residential Tax as this depends on the size of the city and is collected when a citizen establishes their residence in a city and initially all UK cities remain with the classification of "Town".
The City Budget is founded by the currency collected from the local taxes (Property Tax & Residential Tax) and a subsidy from the taxes collected at the government level.) It is already of interest that the number of residents however importantly the housing they use already is causing some variance in the local budgets available in each city during these first few days.
Close
Early analysis is always a little difficult however I'll keep a track on the demographic and economy information provided by the "Cities" pages to see how things change over the coming weeks. Personally I'm most interested in seeing how the local government of a Mayor and a City Council elected by residents will alter things. As when the local budgets are made available to these Mayors and City Councillors to add new yet to be reveal "benefits" to their cities when I think we will start to see stark differences between our cities.
Your comments, thoughts and own analysis is welcomed below.
Thanks for reading
Author
Huey George
Owner, Press Director and Editor of The Daily eWorker
Founder and Party President of The Workers' Rights Party
Owner of 462-477 Engineering, Industrial, Manufacturing and Agricultural Concerns
Founding member of the Co-Operative of Equitable Pioneers
Founder of the Free British Irregulars Military Unit
Minister of Finance / Governor of the United Kingdom
Former Member of Congress(Parliament)
Former Speaker of the House
Former Minister of Home Affairs (Minster of Education)
Former Minster of Foreign Affairs
Former Country President/Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Comments
Great article Huey, I'm interested to see where this cities thing goes, could be very good for eRep
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I think what I find puzzling is not that 44 people set up residence in London, but that 33 of them have Holding Companies there!
A few of people didn't fully understand the concept of the holding companies when it first came out. When they placed their holding companies down they didn't take into account the regional bonuses. So when they put all their companies into the holding company, they soon realised the mistake and found it too expensive to rectify.
A very unfortunate mistake to make.
(Or you could already know this and I could just be talking shait to myself)
I think the holding companies are elsewhere and just showing as 'owned' by the dweller of that region(?)
Me - I plan on staying a nomad and avoiding the tax as the pro's don't outweigh the con's
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The cities addition looks interesting, I went with basing my residence with my holding companies, still not sure that was the best call but I'm uncertain as to what would be best,,
At first glance it looks like smaller towns offer the best benefits but I'm sure they'll add something that reverses that so big capitals are the best places to be
As usual - an extremely well constructed report.....
From the Ridiculous (Aecio) to the Sublime (Huey)!
Voted and endorsed.
Good stuff Huey
I'm looking for any kind of information on the new feature and this helps a lot. Great article, thanks.
My first term as congressman was for Northern Ireland, rest assured someone is now home and the lights are on! 😁
ugh I see from all the annoying ones that left you remained...
Wow, nice to see you too!
And nah, I only popped back out of curioisty a couple days ago for the first time in a year or two.
Figured I could manage the effort of clicking to reside somewhere
well as batshit as it may seem, the mention of mayors and councillors actually excites me. If we see governance shifting back to a regional basis then I think it is good for the eUK, particularly if they change the system back to congress having to compete for regional seats. We'll see what Plato has in store and what role mayors are going to fulfill.
Nice article Huey.
Instead of right at the end, they could have saved my lunch break by moving this to the beginning of the tutorial "The houses of a resident citizen will not have the option to be paused." - Yeah, so benefits previously mentioned completely outweighed. Nomad FTW.
yo so should i move to asturias?
Hi Huey! Nice to read a different point of view - have a look at my own analysis too http://erepublik.com/en/article/2641608 🙂