> But there's abandoned medieval villages (no plumbing or electricity so far...) in hilly rural Italy. there's small towns with fine electricity and plumbing i

> But there's abandoned medieval villages (no plumbing or electricity so far...) in hilly rural Italy. there's small towns with fine electricity and plumbing in rural Italy but they are de-populating anyway, cause most people want to live in/nearby cities as that is where money and opportunity generally is. The same everywhere I think (bar few cases like the Netherlands which are basically a single sprawl). Hungary just published their most recent census, and all of the country has depopulated in the last ten years except for Budapest. The big hope is that the trend will reverse with more remote-ization, but it's, well, a hope.