Well, you don't have to leave.

>buries thoughtful posts that came a bit late

Have a suggestion that gets around this? It's true everywhere with large userbases.

"Democratic" is subjective. Ukraine, democratically, doesn't want Crimean gone. Given the choice, I think the lesser of two evils is respecting the Ukraine's sovereignty. People coming up these days don't know the danger of the Russian Bear.

Unfortunately, the suburbs are still expanding. Urban areas and suburbs both are. It's rural areas that are declining in raw population in many places. This is a wonderful map. Cities are much more efficient when it comes to almost anything. Waste, transportation, infrastructure... The growing demand for urban living is certainly positive, but the burbs aren't dead yet.

They're banks. They've crunched the numbers. Their profits are maximized.