Funny how the places people want to live end up with not enough land. In a society with free movement, it seems to be hard to solve housing costs in desirable areas by building tons of houses in othe… (View Post)

Technically, it is an even number. (View Post)

Because you can't really build a house for 50k? (View Post)

It is one of these regions of Finland with big rural-periphery population decline because incomers want to be in cities if they must be in Finland at all. It's hard to think of an equivalent pla… (View Post)

Not too many countries become republics outside times of invasion or political violence, and in the modern era they go back to monarchies so infrequently that it's not worth characterising them.… (View Post)