Summary
Rural areas across the U.S. are transforming as affordable housing shortages push people further from urban centers.
Celina, Texas, leads this trend, experiencing a 27% population surge in 2023 alone. It grew from 7,000 residents a decade ago to over 43,000, as reported by the Census.
Lower housing costs and available land attract newcomers, but rapid growth is replacing farmland and small-town traditions with dense developments and chain stores.
While some welcome affordable lifestyles and opportunities, others face rising costs, loss of community, and strained infrastructure.
I meant more along the lines of “There can’t be any new high-density housing developments because itll destroy the characterof the area”, or “we can’t build new public transport infrastructure because the construction will be too loud :(((”. You know, shit that everyone except NIMBYs and scumbag landlords actually wants.
Ahh got it. Fortunately there is a lot of land outside the city, and I think it would be good to make a few new modern cities with tall low cost rent and a walkable environment. NIMBY can live in peace.
But you see, that’s the thing; the NIMBYs cry and scream and bitch and moan about all these infrastructure projects, claiming they’ll ruin everything and lower property values or whatever, but when they’re completed, and property values shoot up because people actually want to live there now, they shut up and claim they were never against them in the first place.
Because NIMBYs are hypocrites, and were using public infrastructure the whole time. They’ll never move outside of the suburb or city they’re in now, because if they did they’d complain that there was no infrastructure there that they were used to.
Some people just want to complain. Not much we can do. I suggest giving them what they want and building a new sustainable city run by open minded people.