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Living in large cities today poses many problems for people. What are these problems? Should governments encourage more people to live in smaller towns?

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People
 who live in big cities have numerous difficulties
such
 as a polluted environment and overpopulation. These
problems
 can cause
further
problems
. In
this
 essay, I will discuss the
problems
 related to
this
 circumstance and suggest viable solutions.
Gravitation
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 of population toward the large cities causes numerous
problems
, the most serious of which is the steep upward trend in housing
prices
. These days, most
of
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young
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the young
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people
 cannot afford to buy their own house in
urban
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an urban
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area
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areas
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, and even if they buy a house, they have to borrow
huge
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amount
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 of money from banks to buy it. After
then
,
long
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 time will
needed
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 for them to repay all the loans they borrowed. In order to break
this
 vicious cycle, the
government
 must implement
a policies
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policies
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 to stabilize housing
prices
.
For example
, in Korea, to cool the housing market,
administration
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 has introduced 24 sets of measures, focusing primarily on regulations and tax increases. After 8 months since they introduced those plans, housing
prices
 began to stabilize, and the market had generally recovered. So to curb the upward trend of
accomodation
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accommodation
prices
, intervention of the
government
 is necessary. Another prominent problem is
economic
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an economic
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 imbalance between the
city
 and the
small town
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small-town
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 region. The more
people
 flock to the large
city
, the better the environment is created in the large
city
 according to the needs of the
people
, and as a consequence of
this
, all those who have previously lived in the countryside are trying to move to the
city
.
This
 phenomenon leads to imbalances between the two
region
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regions
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. In my opinion, the
government
 should introduce a local development policy and give some incentive to
people
 to live in
rural
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a rural
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area
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areas
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. Success stories of local revitalization policies can be found in Korea.
Government
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The government
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 let the large company relocate their office functions to rural areas aimed at ensuring stable and quality jobs in rural areas.
Consequently
, new houses were built in the areas, and many train routes connecting large
city
 and the suburb. Eventually, a myriad of
people
 who had planned to move to
metropolitan
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the metropolitan
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city
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cities
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 or
people
 who already moved to
big
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the big
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city
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cities
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 had moved to
this
 region, boosting the regional economy and reduced the gap between urban and local development. In conclusion, I
reck on
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 the
government
’s intervention is necessary to solve the problem,
such
 as population concentration in the cities, soaring housing
prices
, and the slowing of
local
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the local
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 economy.
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