• Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    5 days ago

    How come the west cost has hardly any houses built outside of massive towns? Whereas the east cost is sprawing out.

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      Federally protected lands are on the West Coast, a good chunk of all of those states is just either national Parks, national wilderness areas, or BLM lands.

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        That’s exactly what’s going on between the Rockies and Sierra Nevada in the Great Basin. But, west of the Sierra Nevada, on the coast, the paradigm changes entirely.