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(21.05.2007 )
Albanian properties For Sale in Albania: Villages

With rural houses for sale in Albania, gated communities, vacation clubs and other stuff flooding the real estate market in the former communist countries it's time to put the labels 'For Sale' on entire villages. The reason to sell these entire former living communities is clear, many of these villages are empty, their centuries-old 'infrastructures' are decaying; without fresh investments only the maps would soon tell us that there was a vibrant social life in many of them. With the remaining population moving definitively to the larger cities, whole regions in what used to be the communist bloc from the former Iron Curtain up to the Far East are left to slow death.

Demographic U-turn
With very few exceptions the pre-communist world in Central and Eastern Europe, and in what used to be the Soviet Union was a rural one. Only a half a century ago between 50 and 90 percent of the population were predominantly poor peasants, laboring land with very primitive, almost archaic tools. They produced not so much food to feed constantly growing urban population, as was the case in the West. The only thing these peasants produced in large numbers was children, enough and, just in case, a bit more than the number needed to help the parents to labor the land. In less than 2 generations the communism eliminated completely this demographic 'problem' in many countries. Peasants en mass were moved toward industry and urban services. Only bare minimum of people was left to produce food. Those who were left behind either stopped making children, or saw their children leaving for the cities.

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»(21.05.2007 ) Albanian properties For Sale in Albania: Villages
With rural houses for sale in Albania, gated communities, vacation clubs and other stuff flooding the real estate market in the former communist countries it's time to put the labels 'For Sale' on entire villages. ... » find out more