24 Hours in the Richest vs the Poorest City in America
⚡ Hire pre-vetted senior engineers with G2i: https://www.g2i.coJust a few hundred miles separate the richest and poorest cities in the U.S. — but the gap feels far wider.
In this video, we travel from Country Life Acres, Missouri, one of the wealthiest micro-cities in the U.S., to Flint, Michigan, a city shaped by deindustrialization, state intervention, and the water crisis.
What connects them isn’t luck or hard work — it’s a system of legal loopholes, zoning rules, and governance structures that decide who gets to build walls… and who gets stuck paying the bill.
This is a story about wealth, power, exclusion — and the quiet rules that shape American cities.
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📚 Sources & References
Scalar — The Road to the Flint Water Crisis
https://scalar.lafayette.edu/hydronarratives/the-road-to-crisis
U.S. Census Bureau — Geographic Areas Reference Manual (Municipal Incorporation)
https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/reference/GARM/Ch9GARM.pdf
Data USA — Country Life Acres, MO
https://datausa.io/profile/geo/country-life-acres-mo
Digital History (University of Houston) — Income Inequality & Housing Segregation
https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3436
St. Louis Municipal League — Map of Municipal Boundaries
https://stlmuni.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Map-of-Municipal-Boundaries-Council-Districts-2025.pdf
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis — Flint GDP Recovery
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP22420
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis — Flint Unemployment Rate
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/FLIN426URN
AP News — Michigan Emergency Manager Law & Flint
https://apnews.com/article/flint-water-crisis-michigan-emergency-manager
Supreme Court of the United States — Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/334us1
St. Louis Reporter — Country Life Acres History & Residents
https://stlreporter.com/tag/st-louis-cardinals/
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