Why is the US so rural? Why haven't more people moved into cities?
There is a huge amount of land and there are basically no restrictions on where you can build a house (or plant a mobile home).
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Yes drive from Los Angeles to Boise - an insane amount of open land. Insane.
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Americans like to do both having a single family house with yard, even if you live in a city. That causes zoning headaches in the expensive cities. Some just say they’ll stay out in the country.
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We have a beautiful country and the cities are horribly mismanaged.
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The suburbs are pretty well managed. Zoning is preplanned and HOAs are chief maintainers of the peace and standards among neighbors. That's the optimist side at least.
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come to the midwest and you will see a ton of "Don't tread on me" flags
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You mean your neighbors haven't traded their Gadsden flags in for trump flags like my neighbors have?
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There's a lot of constraints in rural building, though. Unless you're prepared to go without utilities... but that brings another set of constraints.
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When you're rural you learn to deal with wells, propane gas and satellite internet.
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Also, the rural areas can be very nice. Small towns are all over the place and frequently offer a great quality of life, new home, and good community in which to raise a family.
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And it's cheap
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