Swedish town's attention-grabbing campaign to sell land for price of a coffee could save it
By Michelle Rimmer and Andrew Greaves for ABC News on 31 August, 2024.
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By Michelle Rimmer and Andrew Greaves for ABC News on 31 August, 2024.
Quote:Götene has about 5,000 residents, while there's another 13,000 in the wider municipality.
The community is on the shores of Lake Vänern — Europe's largest lake outside of Russia — and boasts a UNESCO-recognised mountain plateau.
It's a popular spot for tourists, but few people stay long term.
In April, the local government put 29 blocks of land on the market at the heavily reduced rate of 1 Swedish krona per square metre, the equivalent of 15 Australian cents.
Anyone in the world can buy the cheap plots on the condition they begin building a house on the land within two years, can open a Swedish bank account and pay water and sewerage connection fees.
Quote:[Gothenburg University social sciences lecturer Ylva Norén Bretzer] blames a lack of job prospects for the mass exodus to metropolitan areas, but Götene is in a different position; it has a booming jobs sector with vacancies ready to fill.
"We jokingly say that we are Sweden's Silicon Valley for the food industry," Mr Månsson says.
"We are located in a very strong industrial region where the industrial sector right now is growing rapidly."
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