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Originally Posted by IMBY
Just wait until our low fertility rate catches up with us. In Japan (fertility rate of 1.2) they're emptying out the countryside due to lack of medical services and all heading for Tokyo, leaving behind lots of empty houses, which could make for great summer homes for the urbanites in Tokyo. Same thing happening in Spain and France, a number of ghost towns in the making, and cheap 2nd homes for urban Parisians.
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Our demographic decline is not nearly as pronounced and is still quite a ways off for the USA
Major population decline (assuming trends remain the same) outside of some catastrophic plague wont be a problem in the USA until most of us are dead.