Ed wrote:


> Hell, if somebody wants a full-fledged house, all they
> have to do is take a ten kilometer hike from my house and they can take
> their pick of free houses from a whole ghost town. I can't say that the
> roofs don't leak, or that the wells aren't dry, but they're houses, and the
> one remaining guy living there isn't going to be adverse to a decent hard
> working neighbor.
> 
You're kidding, right? They're just there for the taking? Old farm 
houses? That's pretty damn cool. I've always had this dream of living in 
rural Japan.

John W.