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> Angry man against immigration: threatens to emigrate.

Bit of a weak and snarky straw man, friend. I'm absolutely not against immigration - what I am against is immigration to the UK, and any other already overcrowded place for that matter, when it necessarily results in destruction of the environment else destruction of quality of life for the population. Pod life will be miserable (intentionally miserable?) when it comes.

I agree with you on the ruling classes - who are ethnically distinct from and apparently contemptuous of the indigenous population, dating back to Norman times.

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Yet you emigrated (at some point) to the Netherlands, which is even more crowded than the UK.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28977602

> Yet you emigrated (at some point) to the Netherlands,

unless born there

> which is even more crowded than the UK

at least for now (0.37% growth vs. 0.48).

Temporarily, for work, somewhat forced due to wanting to make enough money to be able to afford to buy a house in the (overpriced due to overpopulation) UK housing market, and I lived in a (relative) pod, used public transport etc. etc. But well down Sherlock for your bloodhound-like skills.

It'sprobably better that people emigrate to the UK with its relevatively impoverished forest cover and relieve pressure on countries with better preserved ecology.

Or are you against people moving from the countryside to London too?

> what I am against is immigration to the UK, and any other already overcrowded place for that matter

Ah, so you'd like emigrate...off the Earth? /s

That seems an ideal solution long term.

Short term I think we have to find a way to allow more sustainable small multi-polar village life happen so we don’t all crowd into the same dozen or so mega-cities on the planet

Those mega cities are a lot better for the environment than villages or suburbs.

I guess people made similar wisecracks about people moving to the US (for similar reasons of liberty, QOL etc.) back in the day.

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