Letter | Remind me again why this city has to get bigger and bigger

I note the best beaches are where "we had it to ourselves". Too many people?

Try Manly on a weekend; you cannot find a COVID-19 two metre space. Too many people?

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At home, I note that Ben Chifley Dam is 100 per cent, but we're still on water restrictions. Too many people?

I note in the local letters to the editor that Hereford Street is a morning traffic jam. Too many people?

I note the NSW Government wants to move people out of Sydney. Too many people?

There might be a theme here.

The regional cities are already trying to cope with spreading suburbs, especially Albury, Wagga Wagga, Tamworth, Dubbo, Orange and soon Bathurst.

Is the NSW Government wrong to encourage this further?

Could we aim to have our city better and not bigger?

It would be delightfully different to set the example for a non-crowded city, and maybe keep koala habitats, platypus streams, and green spaces and rivers pristine.

We can strive to make our city and surrounding towns even more joyful places to live.

We are in the position to be this wonderful standard, a considered example of appropriate planning which would pay off for us in spades.

We can change our minds in a few decades if we so choose, but we won't have that choice if we over-populate our city now.