Even if you can afford to live in the city, most richer people I know move to the suburb for quality of life reasons. Not just for space either. I live in an ex

Even if you can afford to live in the city, most richer people I know move to the suburb for quality of life reasons. Not just for space either. I live in an extremely gentrified neighborhood in one of the most densely populated city in the US. My condo is worth 1.2-1.5 million (I don't live in California nor NYC, so that's quite high here). Yet even with that, it took 3 police cars to get a dude with a ton of warrant who has been attacking local women to get off from my stairway...for the second time in 2 weeks. We keep having to call out to get drunk homeless people from my parking lot, and crack addicts hide by the door to our storage rooms. You can pay millions and still deal with that crap. Or you can move a 30 minute drive away and have a fancy house with a yard and instead of drunk people screaming you'll hear your neighbors kids screaming at each other while playing in a pool (which most people like better). I'm a city person, but it's not hard to figure out why people would not want to deal with the city, and why people in the city quickly become NIMBY. Now, I hear Japanese cities a somewhat more civilized. It might be a stereotype, but if its true and people can actually respect each other in close quarters, it changes the game completely.