[supplied_demand]

==most of the US has easily avoided the self-created problems of California and New York city.==

Two places which produce an outsized share of the country's businesses and wealth? Seems like they are doing something right.

[Nasrudith]

Fair enough that they are outsized productivity but they are also two places which have managed to basically population-cap themselves, primarily through real-estate mismanagement and refusal to build sufficiently to make it worth living there even as infamously high paying areas.