Now affordability is another story, but isn’t an issue in much of the South and Midwest

Hence the problem on the concentration of jobs within a certain geographical area. If you wanted to solve that you could do it with tax subsidies etc. in fact Tesla is a good example build the new plant in a place with cheaper housing and then get people to live there

When you mandate anything in the US be prepared for massive retaliation. That mode might work in China or Russia but not here