Humans long for nature. Properties in metropolitan areas close to parks and water are valued higher than the ones that lack these features.
Just having ‘river views’ or ‘park vista’s’ justifies paying more for real estate. Even when we no longer ‘need’ trees or water within reach to survive. There is no scarcity of basic resources in cities. But the foundation of our brain (the limbic system) still prefers being close to them.
Our primitive survival instincts influence our lives and decisions more than we’d like to admit.