> San Francisco and Seattle might have more affordable housing everywhere like Chicago if there were land adjacent to the city everywhere, like in Chicago. Sur

> San Francisco and Seattle might have more affordable housing everywhere like Chicago if there were land adjacent to the city everywhere, like in Chicago. Sure, there can be lots of factors. But the original comment was about adjacent land -- which is present in the East Bay, South Bay, Eastside etc. If your statement is now "these places might have more affordable housing if they had different geographies, demographics, regional economies, public policy, infrastructure investments and history", then I agree with the statement, it says almost nothing.