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 Individually? It’s not. When you’re talking about doubling, or more, the population over the course of 20 years it becomes a problem. That person should also accept that they aren’t a part of the community in the way that someone from there is and they need to accept being treated differently by people until they assimilate which might take a few years, a few decades or a few generations. 

I’m not even saying they need to be forced out. Just don’t expect people to like their community changing or be nice and accepting of the people doing the changing. I would be down with anyone trying to force that acceptance being forced out. 
 Especially if you move to small town/rural area and not a city that already had 100,000 people in it. 
 There are usually natural limits such as housing and number of jobs.  
 They can just terrify the locals and take their houses, when they move away. That's the usual path. 
 Tell that to the people who are coming in and putting in 1000s of houses every year. In the county I live in I mean. Hell the mayor in one of the small towns near me is *bragging* about getting ready to double the population in a 5 year period. 

Why shouldn’t the locals feel a certain way about that? The ones that aren’t getting kick backs from land developers I mean. 
 I think those limits don’t apply in a system where the banks just throw loans at people because they can just create the money that they loan out. 
 Isn't that an issue with the mayor then?