“People simply empty out”

Re:“People simply empty out” by tomp on Friday August 16, 2013 @04:40AM (#6222842)

This shouldn't be a problem, especially in the US, where there is so much empty space. Maybe more in the tiny Europe, but there is still a lot of empty space here, and a lot of empty houses in remote villages.

The problem is just that people want to live in the cities, and there just isn't a lot of space in the cities.

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Re:“People simply empty out” by scotty79 on Friday August 16, 2013 @05:04AM (#6222920)

>This shouldn't be a problem, especially in the US, where there is so much empty space.

If you spread population of the world to occupy all the land evenly it would be only 300 feet from each person to its closes neighbors. So it's not that much free space.

> The problem is just that people want to live in the cities, and there just isn't a lot of space in the cities.

And this makes the problem of price elevation from hoarding real estate even more pronounced.

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Re:“People simply empty out” by rubinelli on Friday August 16, 2013 @08:52AM (#6223646)

> The problem is just that people want to live in the cities, and there just isn't a lot of space in the cities.

People will live where they can find jobs, and the very concentration of people brings in even more jobs to cities. As much as some cite the amenities of large cities to stay, a very large portion of the retiring population move away as soon as they don't need to work anymore.

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Re:“People simply empty out” by lgieron on Friday August 16, 2013 @07:05AM (#6223256)

FWIW, Europe is larger than the US (10.1m vs 9.2m km^2).

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Re:“People simply empty out” by alexeisadeski3 on Friday August 16, 2013 @07:54AM (#6223400)

Over double the population.

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