Thread: Why city dwellers are seeking out second homes in the suburbs
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Old Posted Aug 2, 2019, 8:10 PM
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Just wait until our low fertility rate catches up with us. In Japan (fertility rate of 1.2) they're emptying out the countryside due to lack of medical services and all heading for Tokyo, leaving behind lots of empty houses, which could make for great summer homes for the urbanites in Tokyo. Same thing happening in Spain and France, a number of ghost towns in the making, and cheap 2nd homes for urban Parisians.
And there’s nothing wrong with that. There will just be tons of places like the Hamptons, which are pretty quiet during the week (even in summer) and busy and cosmopolitan on the weekends, when New Yorkers go to the beach and leave Manhattan to the tourists.
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