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.
Germans don't appear to live cheek-to-jowl. Granted, haven't visited there. However, pictures of many of their towns and cities seem to be either on the level of the United States' own towns and cities, or actually somewhat smaller--though not as small as some of those single digit populated villages in the mountain states.
Anyway, onto Europe again, they seem to have a decent balance of people to land, even more so since many European cities don't have particularly tall skyscrapers, many Europeans own their own homes (though many do rent 'flats,' you would have a point there).
Now we are becoming the wretched refuse of our own teeming shores.