[Leica] Alone...

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Just reinforces my theory that the poor in the USA are the middle class in
90% of the world (by population)!

Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 2:42 PM Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

> Do they really leave most of their stuff to rot when they leave?
>
> We also have unoccupied decaying houses, but the authorities have the
> power to have them pulled down if they are deemed to be dangerous, and the
> bill is charged onto the owner.
>
> Amities
>
> Philippe
>
>
>
> > Le 9 févr. 2021 à 06:52, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> a écrit :
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Nathan Wajsman
> >
> > Alicante, Spain
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> > "I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right"
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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
> >> http://sonc.com <http://sonc.com/look/>
> >> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> >> 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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