Do both import 100% of the goods?

Lmao what are these comments, are lemmers thicker than redditors?

I mean, yeah, apartments and such should be widely available. Awesome for high population areas, young folks, temporary housing situations, etc. Had a flat for years and will for at least a few more. However, as a drummer (and general loud music enthusiast) I am very ready to get out of the flat and get into a proper house with a basement, garage, patio for grilling with da boyes, etc.

A good mix of both is ideal. I sure wish we took better measures to mitigate the insane housing prices tho'. Sick of thin walls and and a single room trying to replace 4 rooms.

Assuming the needs of a living space is the same across both populations, this graphic seems disingenuous. The pixel count of the apartment suggests it could fit 6½ of the homes per floor. Across 9 floors that's 58 homes worth of square footage.

I assume the homes have garages, which would not account for living space. But garages don't account for 42% of a homes' size.

Yeah, try living in an impoverished town, where it's the housing on the right, spread out like the housing on the left. There are, like, no jobs (none that are actually sustainable long-term for living in this economy), but they just leveled a huge area of forest for more low-income housing (AKA Projects)

OP do you live in apartment complex?

I would prefer a middle ground where you have town homes for more privacy and room for families. Everything is still walkable, you preserved more green space, but everyone isn't crammed into tiny pods.

The US has about 10 million square kilometers

That's 10 million x 1 million square meters (10^13 )

There will soon be (source: people like sex) 10 billion people on earth (10^10 )

This would give you 10^13 / 10^10 = 10^3 square meters (10700 square feet) of land for everyone on earth to live on. EVERY SINGLE PERSON. Not families, individual fucking people.

All of them contained within the US.

10700 square feet to build a house, have a small garden etc. Okay, not a lot. But that's one country that could house everyone. An extreme example of course - you're not gonna be able to use all that land, some of it is uninhabitable (red states lol). But just imagine it for a second, everyone living in one country would still be comfortable. And look how much is left of the rest of the world.

1000 square meters isn't enough space? Make your house have 4 stories, who gives a shit, make your own wizard tower. In a relationship? That's 21400 square feet for the couple. Have a couple of kids? 42800 square feet. That's a decent enough house+yard for 4 people, especially if you add one or two floors.

The problem is not that there isn't enough space. The problem is that some motherfuckers want and get more than their share of square feet. And then they charge you money to live in their share of land without owning it.