Your argument - that increased population causes the support infrastructure to buckle - is 100% false. 

It was certainly true in SV as it grew. For example, my high school had to go on double session as it had to handle more than double the number of students it was designed for. In wintertime, upperclassmen went to school in pitch dark, and freshmen walked home in pitch dark.

Could they not erect schools fast enough? Surely the funding was there?

A high school takes a large plot of vacant land as well as a lot of development.

The eventual solution was the building of a huge new high school complex known as Ed Park, eventually renamed Independence High School, on much cheaper land well to the south.

I remember attending most of my middle school (6th & 7th grade) in "modules". Which is really just a fancy term for a trailer. There were probably 5-10 of them adjacent to the parking lot. It's how they handled the fact that our town was growing too fast. Still use that method today in between builds.

But that's "wide open spaces" kinda land.

Solved problem? Doesn't look like one:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/03/all-humanity-...