Remarkably, an entire village managed to escape, choosing the odd tactic of survival.

How could the rapid depopulation of small settlements be stopped? A new method is now lighting up hope. The obvious base and support of agriculture is the countryside, which is why the accelerating depopulation of villages is a problem in Hungary – as well as throughout Europe. At home, this process began after the regime change, as young people moved en masse to the cities due to the lack of job opportunities (the dissolution of cooperatives) and less comfortable living conditions, as well as insufficient services. Currently, around 400 "dying" villages are recorded in Hungary, which have lost 50–70 percent of their population over the past half-century. The process seems irreversible for now, there is no proven "recipe" to slow down the trend. Most villages in difficult situations are located on the geographical-economic periphery, in Borsod, Somogy, Nógrád, or Zala counties, as pocket villages or border settlements with an elderly population. A similarly worrying situation can ...