> living there Most of the home owners referred in the article don't live there for more than a few weeks a year - if at all - there is a material inbalance I

> living there Most of the home owners referred in the article don't live there for more than a few weeks a year - if at all - there is a material inbalance I live in a village where people buy 2nd homes or they buy to retire - the locals slowly drift away to nearby towns to live in shared accommodation The life gets sucked out of the village over time - house prices go up - but the problem is deeper than that - the school closes, the public transport frequency reduces (nobody commutes), the local shop closes (as pensioners/visitors buy online for delivery), the pub closes ... the only infrastructure with any growth is the doctor surgeries - more of those are planned right across the county It's not a sustainable position - there are 2 families in a village with 80+ houses - the few businesses that are left have no pool of resource to hire from - we live next to a cow farmer with 400+ cattle - he has no help - in any normal world he wouldn't be working from 6am to nightfall like that