I wrote:
> . . . Until sometime well into this century, there was no internet as far > as I know. No fast internet, anyway. Now, there is. If a young person > wanted to move there and work virtually in Tokyo, or Hiroshima, which is > the closest city, she could do that. She could commute to Hiroshima once or > twice a week. She could have a large house for not much money, and an acre > or two of land. > It turns out that sort of thing is happening already. Wealthy people are moving into the island. They are paying lots of taxes, increasing the local budget. I did not know that, and it came as a surprise. As I said, the effects of depopulation are beginning to attract repopulation. Here is a newspaper article about it, which you can Google translate: https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/20230304-OYT1T50124/ There is one idiomatic expression not auto-translated well: Mayor Fujimoto said, "We'll put our feet on the ground and discuss how to use it." "Put our feet on the ground" means "come back down to earth; get real."
