Housing prices tend to rise with the restrictions about where you can build housing, and not all of them are legal ones. Where I used to live, Minneapolis, sprawl was natural and radial, and suburbs just spread out. Nobody cared all that much, since building over a cornfield wasn't like chopping down a redwood forest. A nice house on a big lot can still be had in many areas if you aren't fussy about living a ways out from Where It's Happening.
In areas where geography sets the limits, you have problems. I don't know about Sydney, but the San Francisco peninsula has definite boundaries beyond which sprawl puts you under water. Some attempts have been made in past years to fill in the edge of the bay, but this can piss off environmentalists very quickly (one wonders how big the Netherlands would be if there had been environmentalists hundreds of years ago.)
Most of the hills between the bay area and the ocean are preserves. There isn't a lot of land to go around, so it's very expensive.
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- Yet another strange animal sighting
- Another danger of google!
- re: Yet another strange animal sighting
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- "Gullibler?" (n/t)
- LOL... Now that's funny! (n/t)
- It was a follow-on to this project
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