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'Creative Depopulation in a Rural Japanese Village' (2015) (washingtonpost.com)
1 points by thisisforyou 3356 days ago
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This small Japanese village is attracting young tech workers to support their aging, agrarian population. Are their any towns pursuing a similar strategy in the US? If not, could something similar be encouraged in the US to simultaneously stem the erosion of small town life and the alleviate the staggering housing prices in tech rich cities?