[Leica] Alone...

[Nathan Wajsman]

You can see similar abandoned houses in the Spanish countryside. Young people do not want to live in a village and live the hard life of farming, so they move to the  cities. Over time, there are not enough children to keep the village school open, and a development similar to what Sonny describes takes place. In Spain, the pace of this change has been extremely rapid, leading to a phenomenon called “La España vacía” or “the empty Spain”. 

In smaller or more densely populated countries such abandoned properties would be re-purposed since land is valuable; I never saw such places in the Netherlands or Switzerland. But Spain is big and its 47 million people are heavily concentrated in the cities, so the countryside is extremely sparsely populated, and it shows.

Cheers,
Nathan

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> On 8 Feb 2021, at 05:13, Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> Many small southern rural towns have lost their schools to centralized
> campuses in a nearby larger town.  When that happens, the families move
> closer to the school, and then the businesses go away.   It is like that
> here and in Texas too.  The destitute and homeless can't survive in a
> deserted USA  small town.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sonny
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> 1714
> Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase
> 
> USA
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 9:59 PM CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> i thinnk population density may be the difference
>> 
>> ric
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 7, 2021, at 10:04 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
>> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Why are there so many derelict and abandoned buildings in your neck of
>> the
>>> woods? In India, these would promptly be taken over by the destitute and
>>> homeless without a second thought!
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Jayanand
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 7:47 AM CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Ashes to ashes...
>>>> https://2021.cartersxrd.net/2021.02.07.html
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Ric Carter
>>>> www.home.CartersXRd.net
>>>> http://www.facebook.com/ric.carter
>>>> 
>>>> -the world’s mosst careless typist-
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