Japan's Hometown Tax (2018)
&gt; This counsels that a young person born and educated in e.g. Gifu move to Tokyo after graduation to earn a living.
&gt; Many, many do. While Japan’s overall population is declining, Tokyo’s increases by about 100,000 people per year.<p>Notably this differs from America in that rent acts as a natural counterbalance here. It’s not common knowledge that a university graduate should move to New York or San Francisco, in fact if you aren’t in a top paying field it’s probably common knowledge that one should not move to these cities.<p>I wonder how much different the population landscape of the United States would look like if NYC, the Bay Area, LA etc had ever figured out how to plan for urban growth in the same way Tokyo did (context: you can afford a small single family home on a middle class income in Tokyo, I think prices there are around 30% over other Japanese cities)