Indeed; in Europe, you can find the same reproduced at the village and hamlet level, too.<p>It&#x27;s a density issue, at heart. Any US &quot;city&quot; (if it should be called that) of 100K-500K occupies 10x-20x the surface area that it would in most parts of the world, removing much of the cohesion that leads us to call places cities or towns in the first place.