I'll tell ya Tom, I used to farm a little northeast of you, on the other side of the river. This started in the depression, and good jobs in town during the war didn't help, that's why some are abandoned so darn long the trees are like virgin timber. Not unusual for the people selling out to the nieghbor, who only wants the tillable, doesn't need or care about the house, I would consider renting it out, but sometimes that is a drag, not worth the extra money. Some areas the buildings are taxed if usable or even standing, so down they go. Next town over might not charge a penny. Modern politics doesn't help either , US or Canada, the politicians back east worry about the issues of the cities, out west the farmer has one in his pocket, I don't know about crop prices, but reclaiming a field is a good bet- or 'hedging a bet'? Seems the idea of reclaiming your own land is better than good sense, no land should ever have been left to go wild, the settlers took their whole life to clear a place, 1-2 hundred years later it costs just as much with a bulldozer, less time more cash. Your Ontario brick houses are built like bunkers, the stick builts might not have a foundatain visible- until the dozer hits it. As far as the rest of the continent, there must be a programe where someone applies for a new mobile home and the gov't tears down the old one, you can drive for hours out west- ya know people have lived there between the teepee age and now, but all ya see is newer single or double wides. Water is the issue out there, not out this way eh? I saw 'one' actual adobe ranch house in New Mexico, had to stop and take a picture before the state bulldozed that one too.
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