"John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.komm> wrote in message news:<3F4A11F2.40109@yahoo.komm>...
> 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.

Hmm...  How do they handle property taxes in Japan (and property sales
for delinquent taxes like in the US)?

I wonder if they have auctions in different prefectures for houses
that were abandoned etc...

And where are these ghost towns?