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They can move to small towns with cheap property. High prices are mostly a city phenomenon which is not as important when you don't work anymore.
by averagewall 10y ago
They can move to small towns with cheap property. High prices are mostly a city phenomenon which is not as important when you don't work anymore.
- Animats 10y agoThey can move to small towns with cheap property. Of which Japan has many, filled mostly with retirees. Also, since public services are funded nationally, the civic infrastructure (roads, schools, hospitals) is kept up even when the population drops.
- Aeolun 10y agoTo a point.
- Mediterraneo10 10y agoThe New York Times has presented a couple of articles over the last two years on dying towns in Japan, and it was noted that once the population drops to a certain point, the utilities get cut off, making it hard for anyone who actually wants to live there, to do so.