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What a mess!!!

Firstly, the article doesn't differentiate between car-centric North American "commuter towns" or international train-centric UK/European "dormitory town", "dormitory suburb" or "dormitory village" and "bed town" (ベッドタウン, beddotaun). These are fundamentally different phenomenon, despite sharing similar names. I'd like to see a separate article on "Dormitary Suburbs"(or whatever name is chosen) which reflects an "international view". I don't know if the car-centric commuter town experience even exists in other countries, I think they would have to be specifically named and mentioned, otherwise it deemed a cultural phenomenon of North America (maybe recently China?) Also there's a separate article on Exurbs, I wish I could say a lot of writing here belongs there, but that writing is uncited, consisting of original research, and doesn't really belong anywhere on Wikipedia.

The article is also hopelessly muddled about what kind of economic changes "cause" towns to become commuter towns. There's an effort to include both building up of towns (which, again, is quite different in car-centric American areas than elsewhere) and disintegration of independent communities. It seems to me that the Steubenville, Ohio/Weirton, West Virginia is very specific and gives no clear pattern to apply for what happens elsewhere, and this cross-state community situation only makes it more confusing and less generally applicable.

The California examples also seem specific to "Exurbs". It might be nice to tie in situations like that with George Wuerthner's 2007 article "The Oregon Example: Statewide Planning Works" cited at the end, but then again this seems it might be specific to Exurbs and belong in that article.

Sorry I have no interest in discussing this. I'm just pointing this out for future editors. Therefore I'm not using and account sign off. I have no interest in angry outraged editors hurling insults, which is the norm at Wikipedia in my experience 75.71.166.197 (talk) 21:12, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]