UK Cities and Residence - An initial analysis

Day 3,470, 06:15 Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom by 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

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Huey George

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