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by delichon 670 days ago
Look at a digital U.S. map with a private / public land overlay and zoom in on the satellite images. It quickly becomes clear that people will live wherever they are allowed to. Sometimes the population stays low and sometimes bare desert turns into the Las Vegas metropolitan area.
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> It quickly becomes clear that people will live wherever they are allowed to.

Doesn't seem to be true. You can buy land in e.g. Nevada for less than $1000 per acre, but it sits empty because approximately nobody wants to live in the middle of the desert.