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Today I’m going to talk about towns, where no one lives anymore for one reason or another.

With a mini-story, we will meet John, a man who, tired of his lifestyle, makes a radical decision.

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Okay, let’s get to today’s topic.

In every country in the world, there are villages where no one lives.

I find this phenomenon fascinating.

There are several words you can use to describe such a town. They all mean the same thing:

• Abandoned: This means that those who lived in that area have left. Therefore, people abandoned the place at some point in the past.

• Uninhabited: This word implies that it was previously inhabited. The inhabitants inhabit a place. If those people leave and don’t live there anymore, it becomes uninhabited.

• Ghost. A ghost town is simply a town without inhabitants, without anyone living there. This word sometimes gives a sinister air to the place. All kinds of legends can arise in certain abandoned places. Some people’s imaginations can be very vivid.

• –Deserted merely means that there is no one there. For example: “The village was deserted, there was absolutely no one.”

Now, let’s use a little imagination. Imagine that you decide to move to a deserted town. Moving means going to live permanently in a new place. So, you would be the only inhabitant. You could put a sign with the name of the village and the number of inhabitants: one.

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