[kibwen]

Same perspective here. Even as a rural-boy-turned-inveterate-urbanite, I'm happy that people who don't want to live in the city are decreasingly forced to live in the city due to their jobs. There are plenty of people out there like me who were looking to escape to the city but who were stymied by all the people living in the city who wanted to escape to the country. I just prefer density and walkability/bikeability.

[bombcar]

I think the more people are living where they want to and not where they're forced to the happier people will be in general.

Especially as the "city" fills up with "city people" they hopefully will stop voting so strongly against "city".

[Ancapistani]

> Especially as the "city" fills up with "city people" they hopefully will stop voting so strongly against "city".

It'll be interesting to see if the obverse is true.

My suspicion is that the US will continue to self-select along political and social lines, as it seems to have been doing since ~2000.

[bombcar]

I was more referring to "NIMBYism" or suburbification than purely political parties; both deep red and deep blue "cities" vote heavily NIMBY when they get the chance, and some of that may be that many of the people living in said cities wish they could live more suburbanly or more rurally, and try to make the city as much as such.