You generally won’t ever see in California a cow so close to an apartment tower you could hear it moo and toss it half your pain au chocolat, which I did.
Oregon does this. The fights over moving the urban/rural development lines are worse than a knife fight. A good friend of mine’s wife is / was a civil planner in Eugene.
As to costs of housing that would explain Europe where they have zoning laws. What about South America which is much more, “flexible?” I say the unifying costs are that energy and materials are generally much more expensive in both nominal and real terms. I think that’s the underlying reason why on avg housing is cheaper in ‘murica.
Josh
