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Originally Posted by iheartthed
No... Nearly everywhere in the global west lol. In Europe the wealthiest areas of a major metro area will generally be much denser than Tokyo's average. Many of the wealthiest metros in North America also exhibit this pattern.
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The vast majority of the wealthy in the US doesn't choose to live in density with Manhattan really being the only exception because they're pretty much forced to. And the really wealthy there still have their other single family homes elsewhere.
I guess I'm not aware of the lack of density in Tokyo. But that's a whole other can of worms since density can be easily manipulated by city limits that include other uses of land that aren't residential. San Francisco is very small.
The point is the California dream is single family home living, it's not New York. Which is why when they can't get that in California they go to Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Idaho, etc. And even New York has had negative domestic migration since, what? 1930? So still not what Americans want.