There are 2,371 million acres in America. If the average lot is about 1 acre including subdivision roads and open space then at this rate of home growth in 1,960 years or the year 3,966 (or think back to the year 46 AD for comparison). Every square acre of farm land, mountains and desert will have a home on it.

Just a thought!

Your math is off, muirgeo. The average lot nowadays is much smaller than that. Our home is on a very large lot, at least for anywhere around here, and it only sits on half an acre... most are less than half that. I seriously doubt that if you divide the number of houses by the area of roads and open areas that it would end up being even an equivalent amount as the land each house sits on.

I'm not doing all the math to arrive at a correct number, but if you're using an acre per house = 1960 years to fill up the land, and I would be surprised if the actual number was even half an acre per house, I would have to guess we've got nearly 4000 years to get to your fatalistic prediction.

Yes, it's swell about all the new-home sales, albeit Americans' consumer debt level and negative savings rate are at scary levels.

But then there is this: "Many Americans have medical debts, or can't afford insurance: study." Taken together with the number of bankruptcies due to medical expenses, it gives a whole different perspective on how swell things are in Bush's Robinhood-in-reverse economy.

S.W.Anderson defeatocrat message to all:

"The sky is falling the sky is falling...be afraid be very very afraid!"

It really must suck to be a defeatocrat.

phnxbmed responds with name calling and scorn. No facts, no substance. That, unfortunately is as predictable as it is worthless. It's what people who can't deal with uncomfortable truths too often do.

Tell us, phnxbmed, if God forbid your doctor should point out you have skin cancer, are you going to call him a defeatodoc and storm out of his office?