USA didn’t start building bullshit suburbs until 1950s. before that it was dense cities.
The government was literally giving away land under the homestead act 100 years before that. You could just go stick some stakes in the ground and that was your 100+ acres, so long as you produced something with the land.
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Indeed, prior to European settlement it was extremely rural.
And yet everything in a village was a walk away. If a man shagged his wife, he could hear his neighbor complain.
No it wasn’t. Like 80% of the population lived in rural areas before the 50s. Apparently this sub really doesn’t like facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_States?wprov=sfla1
Europe is much more population dense than the US, a quick fact check easily confirms this.
