Let’s not pretend this is something new. Maybe for all you IT “gurus”. But not for the rest of the country.
Who would’ve known
Oh no! Anyway…
Do one with Rīga region, and rest of Latvia. Or maybe add the biggest cities.
Let’s take over the rest of Latvia and make them as wealthy and… dense as Riga!
do remember how if we would count Riga together with all of its neighboring areas which are pretty much just an extension of Riga it would be somewhat more balanced. Still wouldn’t be too good tho
GDP is not wealth. Sure salaries are higher in capital but so is cost of living. Also richer municipalities pay monies to poor municipalities via municipality finance equaliser fund. Daugavpils gets around 35% of its budget from this fund, while Riga paid in it 100 mil last year.
Satellite view tells that the country is just a big forest, but ‘nobody’ is from the country side.
Now check out New York state compared to NYC…
Always said as a lover of Latvia and being British, LV is basically Rīgas garden, but most small countries are like that
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out of balance.
This is pretty bad actually
Let’s not pretend this is something new. Maybe for all you IT “gurus”. But not for the rest of the country.
Who would’ve known
Oh no! Anyway…
Do one with Rīga region, and rest of Latvia. Or maybe add the biggest cities.
Let’s take over the rest of Latvia and make them as wealthy and… dense as Riga!
do remember how if we would count Riga together with all of its neighboring areas which are pretty much just an extension of Riga it would be somewhat more balanced. Still wouldn’t be too good tho
GDP is not wealth. Sure salaries are higher in capital but so is cost of living. Also richer municipalities pay monies to poor municipalities via municipality finance equaliser fund. Daugavpils gets around 35% of its budget from this fund, while Riga paid in it 100 mil last year.
Satellite view tells that the country is just a big forest, but ‘nobody’ is from the country side.
Now check out New York state compared to NYC…
Always said as a lover of Latvia and being British, LV is basically Rīgas garden, but most small countries are like that