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0 pointsEarw0rm1y ago0 comments

And yet there's hundreds of entire villages in Mediterranean Europe that are empty apart from a few elderly people, lots of small rural towns with tracts of empty property. Usually because they're hours away from the nearest good jobs.

What's happened is a massive shift from a small-scale agricultural economy to a mix of urban and large-scale agriculture, and the building of homes/apartments hasn't kept pace.

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pjmlp1y ago

Yes, even those are out of reach for many pockets.

Earw0rmOP1y ago

The properties themselves are being effectively given away.

Refurbishing them to a modern standard, of course, is quite a different story. Perhaps €100K EUR in a lot of cases.

pjmlp1y ago

Now try that on a 1 000€ salary, or 2 000€ assuming married and both working at a good enough place (minimum wage in Portugal is 870€ brutto), while having a family, paying credit on the car (as public transport sucks), various kinds of insurances, supermarket, electricity, water,...

Even me with my seniority most likely won't pull more than 1 500€ netto at most places.

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0 pointsEarw0rm1y ago0 comments

What's happened is a massive shift from a small-scale agricultural economy to a mix of urban and large-scale agriculture, and the building of homes/apartments hasn't kept pace.

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pjmlp1y ago

Yes, even those are out of reach for many pockets.

Earw0rmOP1y ago

The properties themselves are being effectively given away.

Refurbishing them to a modern standard, of course, is quite a different story. Perhaps €100K EUR in a lot of cases.

pjmlp1y ago

Even me with my seniority most likely won't pull more than 1 500€ netto at most places.

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