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If I had the money, I'd buy all 400 of these villages, and demolish them (save for a few historic buildings). Let them turn back into forest. Then I'd identify
by normloman 11y ago
If I had the money, I'd buy all 400 of these villages, and demolish them (save for a few historic buildings). Let them turn back into forest.
Then I'd identify one village that was a good candidate for development. Start a new town with high density housing, walkable streets, and greenways. Require a green building code. Design great public transit. Eventually, ban cars. I would name this great city "Normville," after myself.
399 villages spared from sprawl!
- icebraining 11y agoThey are already being "eaten" by the forest. Luckily, most of them are quite biodegradable: just stone and wood.
- normloman 11y agoI'm not buying the land to remove the houses. I'm buying the land so developers can't get their hands on it.
- icebraining 11y agoOh, then you don't need to buy them, just wait a while. With very few exceptions (mostly a few "ecohouses" for foreign tourists), no developer touches those villages with a ten foot pole. Between the desertification of the region, the crashed real estate market and the cost of rebuilding those houses, the average return is probably between "terrible" and "catastrophic".
- saalweachter 11y agoNot to mention the qualification of "... if the ownership rights were determined." Nothing like making a substantial investment and then -- if you actually turn it around -- having a couple dozen claimants pop up suing you for illegally occupying their ancestral/childhood lands.
- icebraining 11y agoYeah, like I wrote in another comment, I'm personally expected to inherit ~1/52 of a small piece of land ;)