Demento

So what you are suggesting is that there be less immigrants, and women stop working?

As for higher housing prices, who has gained? Baby boomers and preceding genrations. They don't mind pocketing Chinese money. Just don't want the Chinese to actually move in.

Finally, in 1700s you could build a house in Vancouver for zero dollars. Things were much better then, right? Today Vancouver is one of the best cities in the world to live in, according to Mercer and the Economist. It wasn't so in 1902. When it was an overgrown village. It is far more cosmopolitan today.

Just like more people like to live in a cosmopolitan city like New York or San Francisco. A lot less people like to live in rural Alabama. I am sure that rural Alabama appeals a lot more to you (cheap housing, no immigrants, single culture, more guns).