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...psychology at work here: some homeowners are unwilling to pay more to educate other people's kids; some parents, out of ignorance or indifference, tolerate mediocrity in their local schools. And some are simply unwilling to pour money down what seems to them to be a black hole. In Gwinnett County, Ga., voters were so disgusted at junketing county commissioners that they voted down a bond issue for schools. They feared that the money would be wasted -- and besides, many argued, having computers in the classrooms was a frivolous expense...
...jobs in the coal industry and manufacturing. In Kentucky the rate is 8.6%. Yet almost everywhere, summer travel has brought a labor crunch in the resort and recreation industries. Dishwashers, floor sweepers and busboys have become as rare as teenagers in summer school. Says Cheryl Winters, manager of the Gwinnett County office of the Georgia department of labor: "There are essentially no domestic workers. They have gone with the wind." The situation . is not expected to improve over last year, when a privately funded study of Cape Cod, Mass., companies reported a shortage of 14,000 chambermaids, short- order cooks...
What are these places then? They are a form of urban organization -- or, sometimes, disorganization -- so new that demographers have not yet coined an accepted name for them. But outside almost every major American city, one or more counties are developing the characteristics of Du Page or Gwinnett or Fairfax County, Va., across the Potomac from Washington, or Orange County, between Los Angeles and San Diego, or Johnson County, Kans., next to Kansas City. These sprawling, increasingly dense suburbs might be called megacounties...
Nowadays they are where the growth is -- in population, construction, jobs, incomes. Gwinnett County's population has almost quadrupled, from 72,300 in 1970 to 250,000 today; since 1984 it has been the fastest-growing county in the nation. Oakland County, near Detroit, has got 40% of all jobs created in Michigan since the 1982 recession. Tysons Corner, an unincorporated area of Fairfax County 13 miles from Washington, was once a sleepy crossroads with little more than a gas station; today it contains more office space than either Baltimore or downtown Miami. The Corporate Woods office complex in Overland...
...import workers from the central cities, where unemployment rates can be triple those of the suburban counties. AT&T uses a fleet of buses to pick up mostly black manual workers at a subway station on the edge of Atlanta and ferry them to its plants and offices in Gwinnett County. But not many city workers can afford to drive to low-paying suburban jobs, and public transportation in most of the megacounties ranges from poor to nonexistent. In Fairfield County, traveling the 20 miles from Shelton to Norwalk means taking seven different buses and paying 75 cents on each...