More people would move to the cities of there were more buildings built, full stop. The housing prices in Norway are absurd, in particular in the cities. And m

More people would move to the cities of there were more buildings built, full stop. The housing prices in Norway are absurd, in particular in the cities. And much of that comes from leaving the market up to the banks, resulting in few but expensive buildings being built each year to maintain high price and the hot potato loan market. Seriously, if you graph out the house prices and household debt, they line up perfectly. On a different note though, different political parties have different stances on where people should live. Some wants everyone to clump around the cities, while others wants people to live more dispersed. End result is that the rural population is turning gray and male, as the younger generations (particular females) move to cities to get higher educations and end up staying there.