[Willie Green]

How about the old-fashioned way...by ownership and mutually agreeable trade by private parties?

That was suitable when our nation was first being settled and was much less densely populated.
The growth and development of our modern towns and cities render that ideal much less practical.

[HoweverComma]

OK, then.

You're saying that to keep a Free Republic, we're going to have to kill off or expel a large chunk of our population.

Aside from the obvious candidates (illegal aliens), who ya planning to vote off the island?