I don't disagree with most of what you said but (and I might be misremembering) but the "grew way to quickly" doesn't hold up. When I was in school I learned t

I don't disagree with most of what you said but (and I might be misremembering) but the "grew way to quickly" doesn't hold up. When I was in school I learned the number "1.3m people" and that was the early/mid 90s, now it's 1.5m. So unless you start counting a more widespread urbanization of the adjacent towns.. the math doesn't seem to work out. I do agree that it feels a lot worse than 20 years ago.