I am not so sure about that, since there is significant social advantages to living in a city.
Though it will properly cut down on the amount of commuting people will have to do.
Though it will properly cut down on the amount of commuting people will have to do.
There are many advantages to clustering together that electronics and increased communication simply cannot replace yet (and I doubt it ever will, even video calling feels "phony" somehow).
20k is a town. 100 people is nothing.
It's all subjective, after all; but that's just off the top of my head.
The ability to walk down the street at 3 in the morning and see a non-trivial number of people around.
A friend was in a small town teaching for the summer, and he said "So then we went to the bar. I say the bar because there was only one." Where I live, there are 171 listed in the phone book.