people living in large cities today face many problems in their everyday life. What are these problems? Should governments encourage people to move to smaller regional towns?

It is undoubtedly true that
people
living in metropolitan
city
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nowadays face
plethora
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a plethora
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of issues in their daily
life
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lives
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. The biggest problem is that the increasing
number of
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population moving to the
city
lead
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to many major problems
such
as crime and poverty. To tackle
this
dilemma,
government
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should plan
meticolously
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meticulously
before encouraging
people
to move to smaller
area
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areas
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.
Overpopulated
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in a big
city
is usually caused by a movement from another smaller
city
that looking for
opportunities
in the
city
centre, including getting
better
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education, having
professional
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job in a large company or opening their own business for a large market.
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, high demand
of
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housing causes the rising price of properties. Some
people
might
unable
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to afford to have a place to live and that
lead
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leads
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to crime and poverty.
For example
, in the capital
city
of Indonesia, Jakarta, many
people
live
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who live
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in a poor area mostly come from outside Jakarta, and
thus
usually
people
who
failed
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to get
opportunities
as they planned before coming to the capital
city
. To fix these issues, some action can be
done
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such
as
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to provide
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equal job
opportunities
to smaller regional towns and of course
an
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affordable transportation to commute. If the root of the problem is because of many
opportunities
and easiness available in the
city
,
authority
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should give the same as it is in the big
city
to prevent movement. In
conclution
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conclusion
,
while
encorage
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encouraging
people
to move to
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a samller
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samller
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smaller
city
can be a suitable solution to decrease
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the problem
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problem
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problems
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people
encounter in a big
city
, it would be
a
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counterproductive to ask them
moving
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to move
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without planning the next step meticoluosly. expand_more edit
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