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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Jan 9, 2017 17:26:08 GMT
There's clear separation between Aberdeen and Westhill (though there is between Glasgow and Newton Mearns), but that doesn't make Westhill a separate settlement, because just about the entire working population work in Aberdeen. It's a suburb.
In any case, there's absolutely no reason to believe that the economic success of a city has anything to do with how tightly its boundaries are drawn, because British local government just isn't that powerful. It certainly had nothing to do with the decline of heavy industry and the rise of finance and North Sea oil, which is the fundamental reason why Aberdeen and Edinburgh are wealthy and Glasgow and Dundee aren't.
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Post by Sibboleth on Jan 9, 2017 17:58:51 GMT
And also Glasgow and Dundee were the two cities particularly dependent on Empire.
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