> Land is expensive due to artificial scarcity created wholly by regulation. Growing up in Switzerland (with expensive land and housing prices), this is quite

> Land is expensive due to artificial scarcity created wholly by regulation. Growing up in Switzerland (with expensive land and housing prices), this is quite an insular point of view. Land is expensive in Switzerland at least in part due to: - an excess of (unregulated) mountains - regulations not allowing all agricultural land to be converted to housing (WWII is close enough in memory that it is remembered that Switzerland was not self-sufficient in food, and that this is a major problem when all your borders are controlled by a single alliance)