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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

It’s mostly crappy areas. Outside the urban centers, they refuse to invest in infrastructure. So everyone flees to the city center, which produces slums, and then everything except the high income areas kinda suck.

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farmgineer@nord.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
We have a lot of good infrastructure in my village and I’m pretty rural (depending upon how big ‘urban center’ is in your definition, I’m between 20 and 45 minutes away by train).

A lot of the countryside that is depopulating is quite ugly, but there is no money to invest in that infrastructure when almost the whole population is pensioners. It’s a chicken-and-egg problem to be sure. I think the government needs to do more to get people out of the megalopolises. My area has campaigns that use our tax money to pay people to move here as well as subsidizing preschool and kindergarten.

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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  there is no money to invest in that infrastructure when almost the whole population is pensioners
  
  The national government has plenty of money. And investing in these communities would generate permanent employment, such that more young people would live there.
  
  But the politics of the county resists this kind of investment, because it isn’t immediately profitable.
  
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- gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  I think the government needs to do more to get people out of the megalopolises.
  
  i don’t see how that would reduce costs
  
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  - farmgineer@nord.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Re-populating smaller towns would give them more tax income to put money back into infrastructure and other programs. Having people move out of the megalopolises helps reduce demand on things like childcare and lower housing costs as demand cools.
    
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    gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    that’s just a really bad take i think. tax laws have to adapt to the people, not the other way around. it’s just a very bad idea to move around people to get more favorable taxation, because tax laws can be changed much faster than people can move around.
    
    on top of that, “demand cools” for housing … is questionable. you know, if we wanted to, we could just build more housing. and i only partially get your childcare take … are you saying that elderly people (who often need care themselves) should take care of the children? i’m not sure about that.
    
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- MrOtingocni@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Shit, pay me and I’ll emigrate to Japan in a heartbeat.
  
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