Moving to where there is more space is the American Way.
Embrace Manifest Destiny.
Go Midwest, young man.
Living piled up on each other is the European way, and it is the path of moral rot, economic decay, and soccer fandom.
There are yet places on this blessed continent where the government is not terrible, where the land doesn't burn from mismanagement and divine wrath every summer, where there is still clean water and sunshine, where children grow up strong and true, where the young play on lawns instead of whatever xeriscape is, where you can do what you want with and on your own freehold property, and yes, where such property is affordable.
For H.I. McDonnough, that was once Utah. Perhaps that dream is dead.