"You assert this as if it's true for all people. But it's really really not. I actually do not want to live in an urban area. I am worried my cute neighborhood

"You assert this as if it's true for all people. But it's really really not. I actually do not want to live in an urban area. I am worried my cute neighborhood will turn into hong kong." "As the article says, we are going from suburban to urban with nothing in between." Hey I live in one of said cute neighborhoods too and love it. But that line about "nothing in between" is so much dishonest claptrap. A simple drive down the peninsula will show you every shade of (sub)urbanism. From 2 acre lots of Hillsborough to fairly urban (and still... way way way less dense than HK) Redwood city. There's a right balance to be found somewhere in there. The alarmists in my own neighborhood as well as places like Palo Alto want to freeze the current snapshot of their areas as their sense of "perfection". That's disastrous in the long term if we want to continue being a viable place for "immigrants" (both from inside and outside the country) to come here and keep the area vibrant like it has been until now.