Which city do you think would be really good if it had less people? (living, housing)

[Lucidus]

Atlanta. I was there on business a few months ago and I had to travel about 30 miles from the airport and it over two hours. Its a beautiful and interesting city but it could use about 1 million fewer people.

[Futcha]

NYC and Chicago do not need down-sizing, in my opinion... LA is a different story. They don't know how to manage a large population.

[Steve_W]

Originally Posted by krudmonk

I can think of some cities that might be great if they had different people.

I think the Bay Area(excluding sacramento) is probably one of them in my opinion.

[StuckPA]

Any city. More people=more problems.

[lovethewest]

Denver. It's a great city, but it's just getting too big.

[bchris02]

Instead of decreasing the amount of people, more people should be crammed into less area, decreasing sprawl.

[Kappy]

Originally Posted by bchris02

Instead of decreasing the amount of people, more people should be crammed into less area, decreasing sprawl.

You mean like Japan

[bchris02]

Originally Posted by Kappy

You mean like Japan

That would be one way to help global warming AND lower consumption of oil. I do go tired of paying $250 per month on gas just to commute. Unfortunately American society is based entirely around the automobile and lust for wide open spaces and this is the result.

[Colts]

Well, people who have the abiliy to avoid living in a crammed area do so. It's human nature to want to be near each other but yet spread out at the same time.

[dumpstermcnuggets]

I know some will hate me for saying this, but I truly dislike how obnoxious a significant minority of the more recent transplants to Chicago seem to be. I truly think it probably isn't only me who thinks that some of the newcomers unfortunately may be turning average Chicagoians into somewhat ruder people.

My apologies, though, to the majority of recent transplants to my hometown and fine city, who don't exhibit such behavior, and continue to be nice, despite this. Since I always try to be, regardless if others don't exhibit the manners I try to always have to others.

Still though, despite that I'll always love Chicago and revisit it the rest of my life, I'm just ready to move to a city in another state that has a slower pace of life, even though I know that'll mean a trade-off of the abundence of cultural activites Chicago, and the Chicagoland region, offer(as it's one I'm willing to accept, as long as there's a small degree of this in whatever city/metro area I end up in, a few years down the road). I just don't think I can stand the fast pace of Chicago anymore, and the annoying chokehold that Dems seem to have on every political office in Chicago, and Illinois. And don't get me started on all the 'do-gooder' crap they always try to pass, such as smoking bans, the excessive taxation local politicians are addicted to, and etc. I'm done with this rant, and'll just do my best to try to cope that I'll inevitably be stuck in IL for the next few years.