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Rural Japan has been on a long, steady decline for decades, but the pandemic now has some plotting an escape from the cities.

A former ghost town in Utah is now inhabited by one resident who dreams of turning the rundown space into an artist residency.

B&S Ball refers to a dance held in rural Australia for single young adults who can sometimes live up to a day's drive from their nearest neighbor. The "B&S" stands for "bachelors and spinsters" and the balls are notoriously drunken and raucous.