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Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago

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Re: Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago

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higeorge13 wrote: post #38

Same in Greece, the countryside and even the islands are dying or declining. Everyone is moving to Athens or nearby big cities. Even most greek islands have become huge only-summer resorts and a large airbnb, most of their villages are almost empty during the winter. There are various reasons but the most important ones are that a big majority of properties has been bought by foreigners as vacation homes and there is…

Farmers and bakers can make good money? Around here, the salaries of those are on the low side.

Re: Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago

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Post by watwut »

bonesss wrote: post #61
gfrecvh wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There's plenty of housing available if you can tolerate the inconvenience of a shitty commute. I would rather pay for the better location than pay for the larger house. The physical size of my home isn't a large factor in my quality of life. The length of my commute is. Now I was going to write "It's really weird to me this isn't a more mainstream view", but given the data we're looking at, seems this view is absol…

Longer commutes aren’t just about work, and that time in the car is not free. Kids, kids sports, kids social lives, and kids schooling can leave people trapped in their cars day in and day out trying to reconcile modern urban socialization expectations and the lower property prices they enjoy because of the minor impracticality. In my specific area the housing price reduction of moving out of the city balances out qu…

> It’s not necessarily the cozy small town upbringing we expected in olden days, there has been generational turnover.

It was never that cosy idealistic and the more you read history of those places the more you see it. The vision of pure sainty village is ideological rather then historical.

People who live in small towns are people. Some get aggressive, some are alcoholic or gamblers. Some are assholes in other ways. Or just lead long passive aggressive wars about stupid stuff. There are fights, enablement and abuse for similar reasons as in the cities.

There is less anonymity which changes things, but the vision of sainty small town was never accurate.

Re: Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago

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roschdal wrote: post #11

Europe has been ruined, since USA interfered militarily in Europe. Since 1900, major U.S. military interventions in Europe have included full-scale combat operations during World War I (1917–1918) and World War II (1941–1945), as well as targeted Allied troop deployments in Archangel and Siberia during the Russian Civil War (1918–1920). Throughout the Cold War, U.S. forces executed non-combat and advisory operations,…

American involvement in WWII was something Europe should be and is thankful for.

Re: Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago

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Post by watwut »

perpetuallunch wrote: post #48
roschdal wrote: post #11

Europe has been ruined, since USA interfered militarily in Europe. Since 1900, major U.S. military interventions in Europe have included full-scale combat operations during World War I (1917–1918) and World War II (1941–1945), as well as targeted Allied troop deployments in Archangel and Siberia during the Russian Civil War (1918–1920). Throughout the Cold War, U.S. forces executed non-combat and advisory operations,…

When did the USA interfere militarily in Europe? Would Europe have been better off under Nazi Germany? Is that what you’re saying?

Yes, I think he is saying that. I disagree strongly and think OP is nazi. They still exist and are even acquiring power again.

Re: Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago

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Post by hdgvhicv »

spwa4 wrote: post #84
hdgvhicv wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Farming continues to be automated. Farms continue to be bought up for way more than their worth (farmland in the U.K. goes for 100-200 times the rental value) as part of wealth concentration.

True, but that is not the problem.

Nobody need to covert to farming.

Re: Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago

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Post by BobaFloutist »

metalman wrote: post #87

here in Nova Scotia there are many rural comunities with NO children and where all of the adults are over 40. many small rural homes are torn down as it reduces the tax/maintenance burden on the owners who are city dwellers now, and use a travel trailer to visit. there are comunities on the map that no longer physicaly exist, except for perhaps one empty house, or literaly nothing recognisable as a town remaining, ju…

Where do the people working the retail live? Up or down the corridor I assume?
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