Those towns which are lucky get noticed and bought out by business people who then come in and level the land for a golf course, amusement park or apartment buildings. The former landholders take their money and move elsewhere, while lands unsuited to development and thus unsold are left to go to seed.
至於它們的命運，運氣好一點的，被財團相中、收購，整片夷平作高爾夫球場、遊樂區或住宅區，地主變財主後，外移他鄉；剩下的，就只能任其逐日荒蕪。