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To: shades who wrote (37159)8/6/2005 6:47:51 PM
From: DoughboyRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 306849
 
At what population density per square mile do you think we should throttle back the floodgates? 5K per square mile - 500K per square mile - at some point human quality of life really starts to fall when you shove us in like turkeys at the turkey farm eh?

I recently went back east for a funeral had to drive from Boston to Buffalo, to NYC and back to Boston. Here I was in what is considered the densest part of the country, and I all I saw was open space, forests and farmland. The US is blessed with incredible resources. Remember, China has at least five times our population on roughly the same square mileage as the US. I'm not advocating that we should fill it up, but I don't see us being restrained by our geography from having a higher population. Obviously there are certain places like SFO and NYC that are incredibly dense and have physical limitations for further growth, but with the freedom of movement, you can make a perfectly nice quality of life in some other place, Indiana, Ohio, Utah etc.



To: shades who wrote (37159)8/7/2005 12:27:52 AM
From: bentwayRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 306849
 
Compared to many place in aisa, the population density here is nothing. Not that I think we need more people.

As someone who's spent a lot of time motorcycling, driving and camping all over the west, I've seen a whole lot of unused empty space in this country. The entire population of the state I live in, Utah, is less than 3 million people. Montana, a bigger state, has less than a million. There's lot of space here still.
I'd like to keep it empty though.


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