> Lisbon and other metropolises indeed are bad, but because a incredible amount of people want to live there despite lack of enough land there. And infrastruct

> Lisbon and other metropolises indeed are bad, but because a incredible amount of people want to live there despite lack of enough land there. And infrastructure. Lisbon is incredibly dense, partly due to its historical neighborhoods that's impenetrable by modern surface traffic, and a subway network with insufficient reach for a growing metropolis, resulting in everyone packing themselves denser in the few desirable areas.