Ghost Villages for Sale in Spain
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Ghost Villages for Sale in Spain
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#2It's a pity Spain country side is becoming a vacuum.
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#3It's a pity Spain country side is becoming a vacuum.
It's not unique to Spain though... And neither surprising, tbh.
Who in their right mind would even want to live without stable electricity, good waste management and all the other things you take for granted in even small villages (There is literally nothing there besides some houses. That's enough to take a break on some holiday... But very few people would be willing to suffer through that long term
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#4”The company recently got a boost after Gwyneth Paltrow flagged one of its villages on her website as a good Christmas present.”
I thought this was a joke, but clicking on the link reveals that a $172k village in Spain was indeed listed in “gift ideas” alongside such more traditional items as a $7700 Hermès surfboard.
As fitting a portrait of our present era’s wealth distribution as any. Future generations may look back on us as a bunch of Marie Antoinettes tinkering with our programming languages while the world burned.
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#5It's a pity Spain country side is becoming a vacuum.
It's not unique to Spain though... And neither surprising, tbh. Who in their right mind would even want to live without stable electricity, good waste management and all the other things you take for granted in even small villages ( There is literally nothing there besides some houses. That's enough to take a break on some holiday... But very few people would be willing to suffer through that long term
Yep. Most places with advanced economies went through this phase decades ago. It’s actually surprising that some of these settlements held on for so long, even in parts of interior France (though that was completed by the 70s-80s.)
It’s kind of romantic and idyll a sort of throwback to what Van Gogh at al might have seen in Avignon or the Comargue way back when.
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#6Yes, how dare somebody buy something expensive with their own money!
Re: Ghost Villages for Sale in Spain
#7It's a pity Spain country side is becoming a vacuum.
It's not unique to Spain though... And neither surprising, tbh. Who in their right mind would even want to live without stable electricity, good waste management and all the other things you take for granted in even small villages ( There is literally nothing there besides some houses. That's enough to take a break on some holiday... But very few people would be willing to suffer through that long term
My siblings were interested in buying an old place in the Spanish countryside as a BTL holiday home, but heard some worrying things about the Spanish legal attitude to inheritance that put them off second hand places. (I won’t repeat what they said; they are neither lawyers nor speakers of Spanish so I give their fears no more than 50% credence).
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#8There's a similar ongoing phenomenon in Italy as well, with villages selling homes for ridiculously low prices [0].
[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/italian-villages-selling-dol...
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#9I'm sure there are plenty of people who can work remotely who would love to live in a place like this, if it were either turnkey or at least if there were some collective action organization. Makes even more sense in Portugal, though -- you could live in a place for 182 days/yr, after putting 350k euros investment into it, with a grant of portugese citizenship. I'm sure there are similar villages/properties in rural areas too.
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#10It's a pity Spain country side is becoming a vacuum.
It's not unique to Spain though... And neither surprising, tbh. Who in their right mind would even want to live without stable electricity, good waste management and all the other things you take for granted in even small villages ( There is literally nothing there besides some houses. That's enough to take a break on some holiday... But very few people would be willing to suffer through that long term
Technology has advanced. You can do reasonable off-grid utilities (solar/battery/water/waste/internet) for 25-100 people at grid-level prices.