Saturday, July 16, 2005

Wolves and Bears

The falling population rates in most of Europe are allowing large parts of the rural areas to be depopulated as the remaining inhabitants gravitate towards to the big cities looking for work.

Consequently bears and wolves are moving into these rural areas in large numbers.
If European populations numbers don`t increase, parts of Europe are going to end up as real giant wildlife parks....

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2 comments:

Matt said...

Looks like a good opportunity to do some real-estate shopping.

Elizabeth @ The Garden Window said...

Parts of eastern Europe are crazily cheap.
There was a newspaper artcile last year about buying **castles** for about 200,000 USD. Problem is the upkeep :-)
I would love to live somewhere rural and be self-sufficient foodwise, and be in an Orthodox country. My money would be on Romania or Bulgaria, I think.....