Big cities are always more expensive than small towns and rural communities;
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Why should they be? I want to live in small, homey community!
And, big cities seem to be emptying themselves out!
Tom Sowell once observed, that in expensive California, even around Silicon Valley, there are huge areas of empty space.
WHY? Because the Guv. prohibits developing them!
Even Hawaii has actually quite a lot of empty space, which could be developed. But the NYMBY/Geeney crowd does not want that!
The restrictions on development is why real estate is so expensive in Dems states.
BTW, these restrictions allow development only by “connected” developers, those who know how to geese the skids of the youknowwho politicians.