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The Greater Tokyo Area (and you have to take the whole area into account when talking about affordable housing) is about 5400 square miles, slightly larger than
by DocTomoe 5y ago
The Greater Tokyo Area (and you have to take the whole area into account when talking about affordable housing) is about 5400 square miles, slightly larger than Connecticut, about 7 times the size of New York City, and still twice the size of the Bay Area.
Tokyo "feels" knit closer together mostly because they don't suck at public transport.
- KptMarchewa 5y agoAnd has population density of 2,631/km2 compared to Bay Area's 431/km2. What's your point?
- TulliusCicero 5y agoA large portion of "Tokyo" includes mountainous areas where nobody lives. In any case, even if you expand your NYC search to include nearby parts of Jersey or whatnot, you're not gonna find $700 1br's as a common thing. And then if you look at the Bay Area having a low overall population density but it's still really expensive, it's pretty obvious what needs to happen.