"The 2-Belo" <the2belo@msd.biPOKPOKglobe.ne.jp> wrote in message
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> There are large signs in many Nagoya area trains that blare the advantages
of
> living in Buttfuck, Gifu, and sport pictures of gleaming new neo-retro
houses.
> The message is obvious: "Please move here and spend your money!"

There are even these "mura-okoshi" projects in seriously BF'd regions, where
the village council zones some land for housing and sells it very cheaply or
even *gives it away*, sometimes even guaranteeing housing loans to build the
house. There is at least one island in Okinawa with an open offer of free
land to anyone who will live there year-round.

On a side note, decreasing populations are not the only threat to the
incomes of small communities. Another problem is absorption -- some
predatory nearby municipality with town/city status cajoles/coerces the
village into merging, then the town/city snaps up all the
prefectural/national money that would have gone to the erstwhile village,
redistributing it as it sees fit...

-- 
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom