The couple applied for a startup business visa, which allows foreigners to move to Japan to start a small business.

Meanwhile, rural households on a low income now spend about half of their earnings on rent - almost 5% more than low-income households in urban areas. Houses in the countryside also tend to cost a ...

Local people in rural areas are being priced out of the ... prices were being pushed up and that in Cornwall, for example, houses were now nine times the average wage in England.

Emporia needs about 250 new homes to be built annually to address the area’s housing needs, but the reality has turned out to be about 13 new units annually. “What we’ve seen in rural areas ...