[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Japan is roughly the same size as California, with a population of around 140 million. And considering Japan is very mountainous, the people are crammed into an even smaller amount of land than might appear on a map.

California can have 60 million people. Germany--roughly the same size--has about 90 million while still having plenty of rural regions.

[Age of Reason]

Japan is roughly the same size as California, with a population of around 140 million. And considering Japan is very mountainous, the people are crammed into an even smaller amount of land than might appear on a map.

Sure, we can live like Japan.

Where you can rent a hotel "room" that is a 6 x 3 x 4 foot hole in the wall (like those places where they inter coffins above ground),--

And literally get stuffed into commuter trains by professional platform stuffers,--

And knock someone into the gutter while walking to work, without so much as saying, "excuse me," and then having that person turn out to be your 11 A.M. business meeting--both treating each other there with the greatest courtesy, and no mention of the earlier incident.

You wanna live like that and more?

I sure don't.

Neither do I want to be crowded out of the coast to live in flyover country.

A neighborhood without a nearby ocean is a miserable place.

And our coasts are already almost all overcrowded, over-regulated stinkholes thanks to overpopulation.

[3AngelaD]

But do we want to live like the Japanese, crammed into tiny houses and minuscule apartments? Or the Germans? Cheek-to-jowl. Didn’t people leave those countries to come here and live the way Americans live? Why should we sacrifice the way we live to cram in millions more of them? If they want to live like that, they can stay at home. See my tagline.