[gyc]

>1. People (in the US at least) overall consistently choose more land over living somewhere walkable. In a lot of places, the marginal cost of more land is near zero

Yeah this pretty much. In some other countries, it's really expensive to own a large piece of land somewhere remote, so only the Uber-rich can live in those sorts of settings.

[ben-schaaf]

Owning a large piece of land somewhere remote with urban infrastructure as you see a lot in NA is also incredibly expensive, yet these places are rather cheap due to heavy subsidies. At least they're cheap until the infrastructure maintenance bill comes around. Strong towns has a good article on this: https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme/