> NL is an easy case to make though: super densely populated so there is a large tax base for such projects. See "The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities": * https:

> NL is an easy case to make though: super densely populated so there is a large tax base for such projects. See "The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities": * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ We don't care about the densities of entire countries, we care about the densities of where people live: cities. For the US, 40% of the population lives in counties on a coast: * https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/population.html https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/population.html 200M people live with-in 100 mi (160 km) of a border: * https://www.aclu.org/documents/constitution-100-mile-border-zone https://www.aclu.org/documents/constitution-100-mile-border-... The US population is already highly concentrated: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:County_population_map.webp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:County_population_map.web... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_populous_counties_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_populous_coun... There are large swaths of the US where there's a whole lotta nothing (population-wise).