Bay Area

“Having high-rise, low-income housing in the middle of other buildings downtown would look terrible,” said resident Karen Glaser during a June 3 Menlo Park City Council meeting. “With no one coming to town, it would become a ghost town.”

I am very confident that there will be more people, not less, if higher density housing goes up.

If you want to live in an area that doesn't have high density housing anywhere nearby, there are lots of places that don't have the kind of housing demand that exist in the Bay.

kagis

https://www.mylife.com/karen-glaser/e318975051066

Sale Price: $2,525,000

You can sell your $2.5m house and have plenty of cash on hand to move to a ton of places in the US that are low density and going to stay that way because there aren't a ton of people who want to live and work there. If you want a Small Town, USA vibe, there are no shortage of towns across the US that would no doubt like to have you move in and patronize their downtown eateries and whatnot.