yes, because you get coerced into letting your children be brainwashed in day prisons, for a start

and being registered and all this other shit, and you can't trust your neighbours, or the police

out in small country towns between 500-10k people none of these things are true, you can negotiate with everyone, smaller is better for less government influence

psychopaths use population to hide themselves, and then they force their desires on everyone around them and make themselves invisible, this is just facts

the dunbar number exists for a reason - it's a cognition limit, and beyond that limit, lie dragons