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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
Actually it's a mining town, so I think it would be a case of its being the only place of any size for some distance, so it gets the job of maintaining the roads etc for the farmers. But that's just a guess.
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So is Kiruna and Gällivare. Mining towns require a certain population to sustain the mine, if you need to have people move there from the outside you need to provide communal services, schools, health care, library etc, so the limits will expand to cover the necessary tax base.