Tiller, a ghost town in Oregon, USA (Photo credit: Landandwildlife.com)
If you have quite a few million dollars to burn, what are you going to do? Traveling around the world might betoo common for a millionaire, so why not buying a town thats all yours, and yours alone?
If thats what youre currently thinking, theres actually a perfect chance for you to have a town of your own.
Tiller is surrounded by many beautiful rivers (Photo credit: Landandwildlife.com)
(Photo credit: Landandwildlife.com)
The picturesque city of Tiller in Oregon is currently offered at USD 3.8 million (roughly Rp 50 billion). Considering that the city is a riverfront paradise, it seems worth the price. The city located about 362 kilometers from Portland and it stretches for about 101 hectares.
Included in the package are an apartment building, six houses, a post office, an abandoned petrol station, and a store. Well, if you want to start a colony here, those would be a perfect start.
Abandoned school building in Tiller. (Photo credit: Landandwildlife.com)
Beautiful little house in Tiller. (Photo credit: Landandwildlife.com)
Tiller isnt actuallya ghost town. It has two residents, a former school teacher and a pastor, but their lands arent included in the package.
The new owners will find unique opportunities with a wide variety of different zonings along the South Umpqua River, said the advertisement.
But the big question is, where are the people? Why did they decide to leave?
The store is still open for business. (Photo credit: Landandwildlife.com)
(Photo credit: Landandwildlife.com)
Formerly, around 250 people lived in Tiller. But then the local government decided to shut timber mills down. They were residents primary income sources. Knowing that nothing left for them in the town, one by one they started to move and left Tiller abandoned.
An investor from China has reportedly shown interest, not to spend their old days enjoying abeautiful panorama but to open a hemp plantation there instead.
But the town is still available should you want (and can afford) it!
(brl/red)
