Some people can tolerate being jammed together in a city, some even thrive. I am not one of them. I would rather have an ugly, cookie-cutter house in an ugly sub-division and drive an hour each way to work every day, than live in a nice apartment a block from the subway station. Expansionism is a fundamental part of our history, long before there was even a country. We need a a place to call our own, even a small one, without some landlord or HOA telling us what we can do in our own home, and what color our shrubs can be, or whether we can park in our own driveway overnight. You can't blame "greedy developers" for giving us what we want. It's not like the government is relocating people here against their will. Not yet, anyway.