Quote:robkelk wrote:"Most" is not all. Fenspace was able to get to 1,5 million when the pioneers were living in magic tin cans in the middle of nowere. Now, the current inmigrants will find hotels, condominium homes, public transport, hospitals, entertainment, industry, shopping malls ful of goods -all the trappings of civilization, plus the extra exotism of the Moon or Mars. That is even if we ignore the opportunities opened for people in the developing world.
Who's going to move "up"? (Most folks like living where they are; it takes a certain amount of wanderlust or desperation to move permanently.) As of 2012, Fenspace is primarily middle-class Western (and, one is tempted to add, white - which is why I specifically made Serenity I non-white). Will that continue to be the case? Why or why not?
While only a very few people (the original fen) are enthusiatic enough to move to an empty planet, a lot more will be willing to move to an exotic (but still english-speaking) city.