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> Reality isn't constrained to "you have to build as fast as possible since your population is going to increase very quickly and there's nothing you can do abo
by tacticalturtle 2y ago
> Reality isn't constrained to "you have to build as fast as possible since your population is going to increase very quickly and there's nothing you can do about that".
If all of the job growth is happening in select metro areas around the country, the existing domestic population is going to move into those areas, regardless of the level of immigration
- nradov 2y agoFortunately there is a lot of job growth outside the major metro areas. Look what's happening now with oil and gas extraction in North Dakota or plastics manufacturing in Ohio.
- quacked 2y agoThis is true, but "Americans aren't able to move to major metropolitan areas because it's too expensive" is an easier problem to solve than "every year there are 800k-1.4M new people to house, and they tend to also want to go to the major metropolitan areas".