Well If I ever get outside Earth for anything...cup of sugar...jug of milk...
I will keep my eyes peeled for you Dave...

Back to Rutland...
RUTLAND!?!?!

38 000 people in a space that is 18 miles by 17 miles???

that is just mad.
too many freakin' people in that small a space for my liking

I lived in a couple cities here...in Canada in my time..some with just about the same population numbers as all of Rutland...

But..
Being a rural country boy...
I grew up with far far less people around....like perhaps less than a dozen in that geographic space...

and most of the towns and hamlets I ever lived in were under 500 people..

hell...
Gabriola Island is bad enough...
has roughly 4 000 people ...
and is an island 9 miles long by 2.6 miles wide ....
all the building code and population is living in an ecologically balanced way as possible with minimal impact ....there are only so many lots for home building upon...and the smallest lots are an acre a piece...the standard is 5 acres (pretty small for a farm boy still )
and a bunch which are much larger.
....businesses and industries must prove their lack of impact on the environment here...
we have all the amenities here without the downside...
we have no "stoplights" ...no convenience stores...no apartment building, ...high rises.....row housing..."cookie-cutter-looking-cancerous-mile-on-mile-subdivisions"......none of the worst of civilization...

4000 people is more than enough here...

Not that I see much of anyone...or hear them for that matter...pretty quiet where I am...
Island's pretty quiet place frankly...

but 38 000 people in a space of 18 x 17 miles....yuck....
can't turn around for bumping into someone!
Can't go for a walk and NOT see people...

I couldn't stand it...
I like not having people around all the time....

God help the space aliens Dave...
when we move in to their neighbourhood...
Of course it makes sense they will invade us...
They won't want us to get off planet and ruin property values in their galaxies!
hahahahahaha