SOLVED: Searching sci-fi story where everyone has their own dimension [s]

[Jasja]

I think it was a story in a collection. Probably an older story.

They eventually encounter other people inhabiting some dimensions and conclude that having infinite possibilities is dangerous.

[Justanotherbiblophile]

I've read something like this (or this story).

Story I read had cross-dimensional travel happening very easily. So, people bopped into a device, and got popped out on their own Earth. Each person / family got their own, uninhabited planet (where life hadn't developed), and lived in a dome house.

There's a lot of in-story exposition about how every man can own a whole planet now with this technology, and no longer needs to spend time commuting places, since you can just bop back and forth to any place on the homeworld (iirc - but in any case, to and from work). I believe also something about security, since nobody can burgle his house unless they know the unique identifier which is his dimension.

So we focus in on one salaryman (well, except he's Western, not Japanese - but a corporate drone). He starts hearing things. It sounds almost like drilling or explosives. He's starting to go crazy, sees psychologist / whatever. Eventually he decides he's not crazy, and goes looking - and finds out...
(view spoiler)[That people from a Nazis-won-WWII Alternate Earth are starting a camp / to explore his planet. He was the first time they'd run across someone from an Earth that had developed life - they of course apologized, and said, 'First come, first serve - we'll just grab another dimension, so sorry'. But the implications were that every Earth that had humans would eventually develop the technology and would start filling up the infinite dimensions. And then the call comes in that another guy has met aliens... (hide spoiler)]

And of course, I have no clue what the author or title is for this. D'oh!

This is a fairly old story, probably published no later than 1990s and likely 1980s. I too, think it was in a collection - although it might've been in Asimov's or Astounding or something.

[Jasja]

That's exactly the story I was looking for. Thanks! You remember it in greater detail than I do. This helps a lot in finding it. And maybe someone else can help with the title and/or author.

[Peter]

"Living Space" by Isaac Asimov.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_S...

The ISFDB has a list of where it's been published:

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cg...

[Andy]

I think Peter is right. This certainly seems to be Living Space.

[Jasja]

Thank you very much! I read it in "earth is room enough". 27 books ago in just January 2013. And I searched through my "read" shelf. Shame on me.