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It's also shortsighted.

Who are the people moving out? Primarily those without money or assets to stay. People who tend to skew younger.

So you drive out the younger, start a feedback loop where more young people leave, inverting the population pyramid. This is accelerated by the lower birthrate.

Congrats, you now live in a place where young people are overwhelmed by grey pressure and the only realistic alternatives are decreasing quality of services, or siphoning wealth to push for more services. The latter solution nullifies most benefits stubborn NIMBYs amassed for themselves a few decades before they got old.

Aka "congratulations, you played yourself".




You just described the UK




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