Moving to a new place obviously costs a lot of money and is overall just an extremely expensive process. But, imagine if you got paid to change cities?
So, if you want to settle down in a tiny and beautiful mountain village, this can actually happen for you. A tiny picturesque town in the Swiss Alps, called Albinen, may soon be accepting applications for prospective residents, and the chosen ones would be paid 25,000 Swiss francs (which will be a little over Rs. 16 lakhs) per adult and 10,000 (or Rs. 6.5 lakhs) per child to live there.
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Doesn't sound that bad of deal, right? But, there's a tiny little catch, like always.
If you want to move there, you first have to spend over £151,925 buying a house, and anyone who moves away after less than ten years will be forced to hand back the cash. But, living in a beautiful town for a decade sounds doable.
There are more requirements, because life isn't easy. The new residents must be 45 or under, and in order to qualify for the payment, they will be expected to learn German.
This new initiative aims to repopulate a community that has dwindled to just 240 residents. A lot of the previous residents with kids ended up moving out of the town, with the last three departures leading to the closure of Albinen's school, according to Swiss news agency ATS.
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But, it wasn't a dramatic decrease in the number of residents or anything – the town's highest ever number of inhabitants on record was 380, back in 1900. So not really a thriving neighbourhood. No wonder they have to pay people to move there.
The town's Mayor said, “Second homes and large residential complexes of investor groups are out of the question. Anyone who moves away again ten years after the start of construction or after buying the house must repay the money.”
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“In a best-case scenario, even the village school will reopen,” he added.
Well, the rules are kind of strict, but basically if you just want to leave everything behind and start over in a new place, here's your once in a lifetime chance. What are you waiting for?
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