Meridian tops website’s ‘best cities’ list
Meridian, Idaho, is a town outside Boise that the Wall Street Journal has declared the best city in the US. Factors include low crime, low unemployment, that sort of thing.
The problem: by advertising how great it is, you’re inviting the likes of wealthy but dimwitted Californian and New Yorker hipsters to come in and buy up the place and turn it into another overpriced urban hellhole.
Of course, the better thing to do would be to build walls around major urban centers and then begin to slowly take them apart. Places like Manhattan can be appropriated by the federal government under eminent domain; the existing buildings can be emptied out and the whole place turned into a “museum of the dark age of high population density.” The current populations can be dispersed to a multitude of small towns built along the lines of Meridian… this would require the construction of several hundred such new towns. Most of northern Canada seems pretty empty, so the urban hipsters and whatnot can be relocated to the arctic circle.