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That was a joke, right?

I could not be more serious.

And if you don't see the truth of what I said, you are missing the most important realization of your life.

Have you ever driven from one end of this country to the other?

Funny, but immigrants fleeing a crowded Europe and surplus Americans fleeing the crowded East Coast of America, settled what is now the continental United States from coast to coast within a lifespan--using horses and steam locomotives to move themselves there.

Things were already so crowded in the nineteenth century that pioneers were willing to risk being killed by indians or wildlife to find a place to settle.

All the best places, mostly along the coastline, were already taken.

You think it's gotten roomier since?

You think you have to suffer under pollution controls and regulations, under recycling, under countless laws that in effect say now it's your turn, then stop, now it's their turn--because we have so much room?

You can just go out in the woods and shoot as many game animals as you'd like?

If America has so much available space, why is real estate so expensive?

And why is the country becoming more and more liberal?

Because the more people you pack into a place, the more government YOU NEED to build and maintain an increasingly complex and unsustainable infrastructure--and the more taxes to pay for it.

Where do you find liberal thinking--in the citiy or in the country?

OMG, what could be more obvious!

And as for a nice place to live, you can keep your deserts and landlocked Montana.

The finest real estate is where the forest meets the sea--and it's crawling with people and regulations and sewage and oil slicks.

Have fun.

And P.S. You would be amazed at how fast the vast open space you're thinking of will fill up.

You stick one house per family every square mile, and your vast area will experience a sea change.

Fences, roads, pollution, laws, taxes, rationing.

And that's only one house per square mile.

That just for starters.