• deadcream@sopuli.xyz
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    7 hours ago

    That’s the consequence of urbanization though. Only old people or those who have no other choice stay in the villages. It happens in many other countries without such extreme populations problems as Japan, so it’s not necessarily correlated.

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      6 hours ago

      That’s absolutely true. But aging society is gonna make communities like this more common. Soon enough most or all communities may be like this, urban and rural alike.