stackyFACTSThe rapid implementation of sleek bullet trains inadvertently destroys affordable housing in once-distant rural towns by completely erasing geographic isolation. Suddenly, high-paid urban workers can comfortably commute across the country in an hour, heavily gentrifying quiet agricultural outposts into highly expensive sleeper cities.
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