> It's interesting that Tokyo is used by people all the time after just quick googling. Probably because it's an "exotic" location. lol, it's not that it's 'ex

> It's interesting that Tokyo is used by people all the time after just quick googling. Probably because it's an "exotic" location. lol, it's not that it's 'exotic' it's that they are a major metro in a country that has federalized zoning that city councils can't make capricious decisions in. There aren't many to pick from. Also Japan housing CPI [1] vs US housing CPI [2]. > No. The US has around the historical number of housing units per capita: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=j9kH https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=j9kH As I said they're not near jobs, and you can't commute from the middle of Iowa to New York or SF. You're pointing to a useless metric. > It's not good, it's absolutely terrible. It's inhumane to force people to live in human anthills. And it's not even that efficient: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1091142107308302 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1091142107308302 That's a great opinion for you to have, but that's not one most people share. You know everyone in these cities could live elsewhere. They elect to live in cities. In fact they pay through the teeth to live in most of these cities. Don't project. If you want to live out in the middle of nowhere, by all means do so, but don't force everyone else to through anti-development policies. [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JPNCPIHOUAINMEI https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JPNCPIHOUAINMEI [2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIHOSNS https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIHOSNS