People want to live with their services and things to do. There's a reason why developers are building suburbs around all the existing cities, but they're not going to middle and nowhere places to build suburbs. Even the land would be a lot cheaper. Nobody wants to live in the middle of nowhere. They want to live close to things they can do. Even if you can work from home, you still want to be able to go to a doctor's office. You won't be able to meet your mates for a softball game, or whatever sport you have to like playing. Maybe you want to go out for a drink or to a restaurant. Cities provide a huge number of valuable things because of the concentration of people that you just can't get in a new small town or new development. Sure, if you can ever get that urban development going, it eventually will develop all those things. But, those things are really hard to get first because they depend on customers. It becomes a chicken and egg. You can't have a new development because there's not things to do, but you can't have things to do until there's people who live there. Build around an existing city and you have all those existing cities. It's worth the things to do.
Depends. The more niche you're interest the larger you need in general. Everyone needs food so you only need about 1000 to get those basics. Though at that size you are making as monthly trip to the big city where they have better selection and better process. 100,000 probably can't support a unicycle shop, you need millions- but 50k supports a bicycle shop that might have a unicycle or might not.
Less than 100 is needed of your interest is shooting guns of your back deck, so there is no universal answer. There are a lot of other back to nature things on those lines as well.
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People want to live with their services and things to do. There's a reason why developers are building suburbs around all the existing cities, but they're not going to middle and nowhere places to build suburbs. Even the land would be a lot cheaper. Nobody wants to live in the middle of nowhere. They want to live close to things they can do. Even if you can work from home, you still want to be able to go to a doctor's office. You won't be able to meet your mates for a softball game, or whatever sport you have to like playing. Maybe you want to go out for a drink or to a restaurant. Cities provide a huge number of valuable things because of the concentration of people that you just can't get in a new small town or new development. Sure, if you can ever get that urban development going, it eventually will develop all those things. But, those things are really hard to get first because they depend on customers. It becomes a chicken and egg. You can't have a new development because there's not things to do, but you can't have things to do until there's people who live there. Build around an existing city and you have all those existing cities. It's worth the things to do.
But what is the size that provides those things? 10,000? 100,000? 1,000,000? 10,000,000?
Depends. The more niche you're interest the larger you need in general. Everyone needs food so you only need about 1000 to get those basics. Though at that size you are making as monthly trip to the big city where they have better selection and better process. 100,000 probably can't support a unicycle shop, you need millions- but 50k supports a bicycle shop that might have a unicycle or might not.
Less than 100 is needed of your interest is shooting guns of your back deck, so there is no universal answer. There are a lot of other back to nature things on those lines as well.