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I'll stop living in a megalopolis when I can make a decent living outside the megalopolis. As it stands, friends who moved out of London over Covid are now trying to move back.

I don't actually live in London (there's no way I could afford to), I remote work in the midlands and get the train in to London every couple of weeks. But I do agree that everyone living in London and San Fran for decent wages is part of the problem. It essentially makes those places unaffordable to people who've lived their all their lives, and actually doesn't even make that much sense for tech workers for example, who could work remotely and live anywhere anyway

> Megalopolis are wrong. Stop accruing them!

What makes you say that? In theory they are much more efficient way of living for a given number of people ( assuming you invest appropriately in shared infrastructure ).