[Clubber]

>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.

[kuriho]

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

[Clubber]

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.

https://demographics.virginia.edu/DotMap/