These Will Be The World's Next Megacities: By 2050, 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, up from 54 percent in 2020

Nation and State ^ | 01/21/2023 | Tyler Durden

[metmom]

Soylent Green, here we come.

[SamAdams76]

Many people do want to live in cities, even if they are dirty, grimy, and crime ridden. I had a sister-in-law who was scared to death of the country. She spent her entire life in her little urban oasis and was perfectly happy with that. Police sirens at 3am never bothered her, in fact comforted her. On the other hand, a rooster crow at 5am would send her into hysterics that a wild animal was nearby.

I live in a mostly rural area of Connecticut and often see deer coming through my back yard. That would terrify many city people, believe it or not.

Yet I commute to mid-town Manhattan and see how people are very comfortable living there, despite the homeless everywhere with car horns and sirens pretty much 24/7.

Note: A police siren in my neighborhood would send everybody out onto the street to see what was happening, for sirens are rare in my neighborhood.

Another facet of Manhattan is that every city block is self-sustaining. You will have multiple supermarkets, convenience stores, restaurants, coffee shops, barber shops, dry cleaners, banks, liquor stores and a subway or bus stop within a block of wherever you are.

People find comfort in that.

In my neighborhood, you have to get in a car and burn a gallon or two of gas to get to and from pretty much anything that I mentioned above.