[treesrule]

I wonder if there are other things we'd do with land if the price of land came down

Maybe we'd see more communes (or charter cities)? I know for a fact there are people constantly looking for places to buy and if things were cheap enough they'd jump on it.

[aerostable_slug]

There are still swaths of cheap land, even in California. They also sometimes have water issues and often have a rather disagreeable climate to many. Plus meth and illegal marijuana grow ops, the latter of which are so endemic and use so much water that local authorities have just removed fire hydrants from entire areas.

[pharke]

Available land is not the limiting factor on new cities or communes. Look at the chart in the article and compare the amount of land used for urban development.

Starting a new city or commune is the same as starting a new social media platform, why should I move from my current platform/city to your new one? How do you get your first 1000 subscribers/residents? What do you offer that other places don't already have 10x of? I'm not going to move to your commune/app unless all of my friends and family do too. etc.