As Dutch villages continue to trickle empty, one border town managed to stop the outflow

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As Dutch villages continue to trickle empty, one border town managed to stop the outflow

Dutch villages and towns are trickling empty as residents leave for the cities where there are more facilities, homes, and jobs available, according to figures that Statistics Netherlands published on Monday. “Regionally, there was mainly growth in the most densely populated west and mainly shrinking in the North.” In the western Netherlands, 30 percent of the population centers shrank. Megchelen, a small town with just under 1,000 residents on the border with Germany, also dealt with a dwindling population, until a group of residents decided to step in and stop the outflow. “All projects were started by private individuals from the town itself,” said George Kiwitz, 83, who is behind five of the new homes.

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