Apart from what's already been mentioned... Consider that the population of England during the colonization of America was around 3 million. Today, nearly 3 ti

Apart from what's already been mentioned... Consider that the population of England during the colonization of America was around 3 million. Today, nearly 3 times that live in London alone. It's like asking why would anyone have bothered to risk traveling across the Atlantic for months to get to untamed wilderness when England could've just built more housing.