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well considering they need homes it seems government resources could be used to settle them in villages similar to this with access to land to allow them to kee

• icebraining 11y ago
  It certainly should cost less Not really; like FranOntanaya pointed out, most of these buildings are just four crumbling stone walls and a roof (with luck). And it doesn't help that Galicia is very humid. It'd be much cheaper to tear them down and build a new house on the same land. And much cheaper still, of course, is making large apartment buildings. Besides, it's not clear that those immigrants would actually stay there. Like the people who left, they probably also want jobs and access to stuff (cheap grocery stores, entertainment, etc). These villages are in the middle of nowhere, often connected by narrow and curvy roads that surround the mountains. EDIT: Also, one of the reasons why they're abandoned, is because many of the houses / terrains are more than 100 years old, the property now belongs to dozens of grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, and it's a pain to get them all to sign off to the sale. For example, my greatgrandparent's land has been passed to their 13 sons and daughters, each of whom have had 2-4 kids of their own, etc. I think my mother owns about ~1/26 of the property.