Remnant – Issue No.7
If you read this newsletter, you are a person who has at least daydreamed about buying a piece of another country because it is beautiful and cheaper than home.
Remnant – Issue No. 6
Emptiness, it turns out, is everyone's project right now. There are vacant houses across the globe everywhere, and almost everyone in charge has decided it is a problem worth real money to solve. They just disagree, fascinatingly, about how.
Remnant – Issue No. 5
Sardinia and Calabria are the examples in this issue, but they are part of a broader pattern of repopulation grants — income support, business start-up money, symbolic rents — aimed at getting working-age people to stay and live.
Remnant – Issue No. 4
In Spain, the answer has increasingly been immigrants. Whole villages in "España vaciada," the emptied interior, have been brought back from the edge by families from Latin America and Morocco.
Remnant — Issue No. 3
We have been thinking more generally about infrastructure and resources, things you can't really know until you spend several seasons in a place.
Remnant–– Issue No. 2
All three of this week's Italian houses are in Umbria, the landlocked green heart of the country. Home to ancient Etruscan towns like Orvieto – known to the Etruscans as Velzna – built on outcroppings of volcanic stone (tufa) that contain ancient passages beneath that you can still explore.
Remnant — Issue No. 1
Abandoned houses in Japan and Portugal, from $5k akiyas to stone ruins. Plus relocation grants and visa pathways worth investigating this week. Hi! We're Wally and Malia, and this is the very first issue of Remnant, so let's do introductions. We're writers with kids