It does seem attractive, all the empty land out there.<p>But the point of cities is to be near lots of other people all the time. There&#x27;s a tipping point of human flourishing from the intermingling.<p>Great cities outlasted empires. Interaction density is the important thing, and it grows combinatorially with human density. There&#x27;s no way you&#x27;re going to get rural logistics to that level.