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I wonder did there’s an opportunity here. Like…. Hey, I’ll move to one of these countries and start a business doing _________ because in a shrinking population

I wonder did there’s an opportunity here. Like…. Hey, I’ll move to one of these countries and start a business doing _________ because in a shrinking population that’d be great!

pastor_bob 4y ago
bulldozing houses and buying land for cheap maybe?
- duxup 4y ago
  But then what? Farm on it? Cost of bulldozing and making land farm-able I imagine is crazy high... let alone all you'll get is a patchwork of houses / land.
ivandenysov 4y ago
Something where you can exploit cheap elderly labor. Their government pensions, supported by the shrinking working population, won’t be enough to retire
toomuchtodo 4y ago
I thought about it the other way: build an accelerator to get paid by nation states to pull young, productive workers to your declining population country (both remote workers and skilled on site workers, think healthcare). Want to start something together (I’m a highly skilled worker familiar with and working on expatriating to Western Europe)? Lots of value to generate in nation states competing for future productivity, and therefore power.
- simonebrunozzi 4y ago
  Both are interesting business models.
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- tomarr 4y ago
  How would you go about this?
cinntaile 4y ago
Not really, you just have a smaller consumer group. Not that great for business. In almost all cases educated people are leaving those places for economic reasons.
micromacrofoot 4y ago
You can already do that in the US too, some rural parts of the country have a significant lack of skilled tradespeople.
duxup 4y ago
I like the idea here but what are you going to do? Local consumers and employees are going down. Many of these places people professionals are / want to emigrate OUT. I kinda like the idea of living / working in a sleepy Italian village but then you have the issues of services (government AND private) degrading and so on...
shtopointo 4y ago
Land may become cheaper given fewer people – so, farms?

I wonder did there’s an opportunity here. Like…. Hey, I’ll move to one of these countries and start a business doing _________ because in a shrinking population that’d be great!

pastor_bob 4y ago

bulldozing houses and buying land for cheap maybe?

duxup 4y ago
But then what? Farm on it? Cost of bulldozing and making land farm-able I imagine is crazy high... let alone all you'll get is a patchwork of houses / land.

ivandenysov 4y ago

Something where you can exploit cheap elderly labor. Their government pensions, supported by the shrinking working population, won’t be enough to retire

toomuchtodo 4y ago

I thought about it the other way: build an accelerator to get paid by nation states to pull young, productive workers to your declining population country (both remote workers and skilled on site workers, think healthcare). Want to start something together (I’m a highly skilled worker familiar with and working on expatriating to Western Europe)? Lots of value to generate in nation states competing for future productivity, and therefore power.

simonebrunozzi 4y ago
Both are interesting business models.
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tomarr 4y ago
How would you go about this?

cinntaile 4y ago

Not really, you just have a smaller consumer group. Not that great for business. In almost all cases educated people are leaving those places for economic reasons.

micromacrofoot 4y ago

You can already do that in the US too, some rural parts of the country have a significant lack of skilled tradespeople.

duxup 4y ago

I like the idea here but what are you going to do? Local consumers and employees are going down. Many of these places people professionals are / want to emigrate OUT. I kinda like the idea of living / working in a sleepy Italian village but then you have the issues of services (government AND private) degrading and so on...

shtopointo 4y ago

Land may become cheaper given fewer people – so, farms?