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Re:City residents live with mental illness at higher rates t... by klipt on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @01:18PM (#19921619)
80% of Americans live in cities. That means if they all moved to rural areas, the population density of rural areas would go up 5X. Would they still be rural then?
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Re:City residents live with mental illness at higher rates t... by thrower123 on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @01:34PM (#19921777)
That's actually a good question... There is so much land, especially west of the Mississippi, that is almost completely unpeopled that I'm not sure that distributing the people concentrated in the most dense 1000 sq miles would make a significant increase.

We need a Randall Monroe What If?

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Re:City residents live with mental illness at higher rates t... by magduf on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @02:21PM (#19922217)
Much of the land west of the Mississippi isn't arable land or livable in any way, unless you do what they did in Phoenix and pump the rivers dry. That isn't sustainable; it's an environmental disaster.
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