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Wonder how they decide who the 25M will be... wouldn't such a policy artificially inflate the price of "living there" by jacked up real-estate prices? Now that the supply is stopped and the demand is not..

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You can get a feel from these two articles depicting the expulsion of migrants from Beijing which also has a population limit.

Campaign to Drive Out Migrants Slams Beijing’s Best and Brightest(https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/world/asia/china-beijing-...)

Why Parts of Beijing Look Like a Devastated War Zone(https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/asia/china-beijing-...)

That's sort of what happens with Beijing car licenses so that sounds about right.

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