Comment by titanomachy
5 days ago
Countries don’t “concentrate people into cities”… the people create cities by choosing to live close to each other.
5 days ago
Countries don’t “concentrate people into cities”… the people create cities by choosing to live close to each other.
I would dispute that, people move to cities primarily to work and earn more money. Often with the goal of being able to later buy a house in a less dense area that they would struggle to buy otherwise.
That’s the proximal reason, sure, but the density is a big part of what causes cities to have high-paying jobs.
No. People are _forced_ to move into large cities. And people who refuse that are being subjected to ever-increasing economic pressure.
_Choice_ means that there is a viable option to _not_ do it.
And more and more people do not _have_ this option. They have to move into dense cities because it's the only location that has half-decent job options.
I don't have data for Europe, but in the US the gap is growing between people who _want_ to live outside the dense cities and people who do.