Opposition to a bigger Melbourne smacks of cultural snobbery

Too often the debate is hijacked either by a cultural snobbery against growth suburbs on the city fringe, or a self-serving not-in-my-backyard-ism against development in established areas.
Nearly half of all new development will happen in Melbourne growth areas in the west and north — in Hume, Melton, Whittlesea and Wyndham.
Of those, 284,000 will be in [...]