This same type of “future building for change” occurs in the USA too. I remember a huge sub development built in Mn, with 100+ beautiful homes, built on the premise that people from the Minneapolis/St Paul would move an hour away for nicer housing in a small town. These houses were all empty, except a few. My company received a contract to service these homes with the builder bankrupted. This builder had multiple empty “developments”. It is an odd feeling going into houses upon house and nobody home.
Heck, one of my first jobs was part time typing up data for a civil engineer group in Phoenix who were "subdividing" AZ acreage and selling mythical "ranchettes" to gullible easterners. They never got past grading a few roads.
This same type of “future building for change” occurs in the USA too. I remember a huge sub development built in Mn, with 100+ beautiful homes, built on the premise that people from the Minneapolis/St Paul would move an hour away for nicer housing in a small town. These houses were all empty, except a few. My company received a contract to service these homes with the builder bankrupted. This builder had multiple empty “developments”. It is an odd feeling going into houses upon house and nobody home.
Heck, one of my first jobs was part time typing up data for a civil engineer group in Phoenix who were "subdividing" AZ acreage and selling mythical "ranchettes" to gullible easterners. They never got past grading a few roads.