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Who can even afford living in a city or on the country side? City is too expensive, and country side is cheap but there are no jobs. If you wanna have some kind of a decent-sized place for a family with kids, suburbia is a must unless you are somehow rich. Or happen to have a job that exists in the country side.
Only because the zoning laws suck and you have a missing middle.
Here in sweden you can find municipal housing apartments for 400 bucks per month literally right in the middle of downtown, in smaller cites.
The wonders of actually building enough housing and not having it all be for profit.
Most people. America has less than 4% of the global population.