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Art Eatman · May 31, 2013, 10:41 AM

Brewster County, Texas, is the size of the state of Delaware. We have yet to exceed 10,000 people. Driving south from Alpine, the highway fence of the west pasture of the O2 Ranch is 28 miles long; the pasture is 17 miles deep.

Then there are the federal lands of the western US.

I think it's in Montana that Ted Turner owns a half-million acres; he has a similar tract in New Mexico. Texas' King Ranch is some 800,000+ acres.

Sure, there is open land in Europe. It's just nowhere near the scale of what we have in the US.

Our urban sprawl is due to the fact that the land was available and on average a US person needs more space than the average foreigner. That is not even arguable; it's well established in the literature. By and large, foreigners can live more closely together, sit closer, and stand closer while conversing. They're more emotionally comfortable with "non sprawl".

May 31, 2013, 10:41 AM	#22
Art Eatman Staff in Memoriam Join Date: November 13, 1998 Location: Terlingua, TX; Thomasville, GA Posts: 24,798	Brewster County, Texas, is the size of the state of Delaware. We have yet to exceed 10,000 people. Driving south from Alpine, the highway fence of the west pasture of the O2 Ranch is 28 miles long; the pasture is 17 miles deep. Then there are the federal lands of the western US. I think it's in Montana that Ted Turner owns a half-million acres; he has a similar tract in New Mexico. Texas' King Ranch is some 800,000+ acres. Sure, there is open land in Europe. It's just nowhere near the scale of what we have in the US. Our urban sprawl is due to the fact that the land was available and on average a US person needs more space than the average foreigner. That is not even arguable; it's well established in the literature. By and large, foreigners can live more closely together, sit closer, and stand closer while conversing. They're more emotionally comfortable with "non sprawl".