The following is a 3 message exchange between 4 users
@ToucanJohnnyGreen3wks3W
I'm old enough to have enjoyed an America with a population of about 200 million. It was better in almost every aspect that mattered to a middle-income family. It may be hard for people under age 50 to appreciate how much inviting and less crowded this nation was by the mid-sixties than it is now. By every environmental and infrastructure resource measure the US is grossly over-populated.
There's no escaping the "crowd." Places in the '60's in which a citizen could enter - sans reservations - such as Yellowstone and Glacier which I simply showed and stayed now… Read more
@R3publicanRhinoDemocrat3wks3W
Well there was no escaping the crowd in New York City or San Francisco in the 1960s. What is different now is that more of the crowd can afford to escape...to national parks and the like. In fact, for most of the American landmass (rural areas and small towns) depopulation is the issue. In fact, popular myths like the 'western' aside, the US has always been dominated by its great cities, although over time which cities are the great ones has morphed a bit.
@Freedom763wks3W
Thomas Jefferson said that the "mobs of the cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body." They are inflated tumours growing on an otherwise beautiful nation. Flee to the country.
