Urban vs rural is a lousy binary. There’s at least 8 levels
- Traditional rural (mainly Asia)
- Large-industrial-farm rural
- Small hipster rural
- Dying industrial town
- Charming lifestyle town (incl college)
- Small modern town
- Medium real city
— criticality —
- Megapolis
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There's also the dimension of how functional the nominal infrastructure is. If it actually worked as well, Mumbai would roughly be like New York, but of course it is way more overloaded for the infrastructure so you have to navigate a 2x cognitive burden of hacker knowledge.
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This multiple increases rapidly from simplest to the most complex habitation. The cognitive burden multiple for a broken small town over a healthy one is maybe 1.2. For a megapolis scale, it is at least 2 (can't be too high because there's minimum viable functionality effect)
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