Also, inevitably, more fingers per square foot, more calories consumed per acre, higher water usage, and more conversations per minute in the neighborhood.

things that people do increase when there are more people. really unclear what your point is here, and the way you said it really makes you look mean.

Per capita murder rates are much higher in large cities than in rural areas.

That's the common wisdom, but is it true? https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-07/is-new...

It's a nice story except that the statistics seem to say something different. The states with the highest homocide rates are actually not very densely populated. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2021-11-12/...

The level of crime in Rotterdam is lower than in San Francisco though