Last year Ms Weston of the tiny village of Cumnock NSW, Australia, came up with an initiative that saw city and interstate families radically change their lifestyle. Concerned about the decline in numbers at the local school she came up with a plan to convince people to move to the area. Her plan was to bring people into the area by offering cheap rental. $1 a week gets a family a farmhouse. It may have an inadequate kitchen and an outside toilet (or dunny as we’d call it in Aussie slang,) but despite the obvious drawbacks people snapped them up. … Continue reading →