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>space to build new houses growing ever so scarcely

If you are talking about the US, I think you are neglecting to take into account the hundreds of millions of square acreage between the coasts.

I guess there was some Swiss bias in what I wrote. Apologies for living in a tiny country.

We treat the US like it's a tiny country and require the population to live in small areas around the coasts. It's the craziest thing.