I suspect the correct answer in this case is “When it’s in a very small town, in a country with one of the world’s lowest fertilty rates.”
Even those places won’t repurpose shit because they have a surplus of abandoned buildings, because there’s no fucking people.
Also, places seeming to become ghost towns don’t build new schools cuz they already have enough schools, so what’s the point of the whine?
Oh and of course ghost towns in Europe wont let immigrants move in either.
Bonnewitz appears to be just over an hour away from Dresden by transit (half of that if you have a car), so I guess at some point it could find new life as a “commuter suburb of last resort,” depending on what housing prices in Dresden are doing. I just hope no one with kids moves there because apparently they’re not very serious about keeping schools open!
