走向拆除：泡沫破灭后的西班牙鬼城

    而一些政府和银行已经在拆除路上先行一步。去年，爱尔兰“不良资产银行”NAMA拆除了朗福德郡一个拥有12套公寓的街区。加州也对一些新房屋和未完工的房屋进行了隔离式拆除。在某些情况下，尤其是独立开发的未完工项目，等待它们的可能只有拆除。

    巴塞罗那IESE商学院经济学教授安东尼奥•阿甘冬娜（Antonio Argandoña）表示，“如果开发项目远离城镇，那你就别抱什么期望。房价回不来了。”

    离拉穆埃拉5英里远的地方有一个能俯瞰前往萨拉戈萨高速公路的陡坡，陡坡上面伫立着残破的混凝土屋架，也就是曾经的高尔夫社区房屋开发项目Ciudad Zaragoza Golf。拉穆埃拉镇规划人员恩尼克•巴拉奥说，在该项目一期计划建造的2,316套房屋中，只有36套拿了居住许可。社区中为数不多的居民都在抱怨，社区中没有市政服务，而且当我问萨拉戈萨-拉穆埃拉公交线路的司机这些人如何回家时，她摇了摇头说，“没有公交车去那个地方”。

    然而，拉穆埃拉小镇中心的居民还没有想过要把这些房子拆掉；他们仍在留恋小镇曾经的繁荣，那时，镇里甚至还为居民的旅行提供资助。维克多•卡纳雷斯说：“不管你去哪，镇里都会给你买单。我们因高质量的生活而成为了著名的小镇。”在小镇的资助下，维克多曾到访过多米尼加共和国、阿根廷、巴西和墨西哥。

    拉穆埃拉可能还有希望。镇里新来了一批居民，他们深受小镇的生活质量和低价房产的吸引。在人行道上满是尘土的小镇边缘，苏珊娜•埃斯卡诺（Susana Escaño）把自己的宝宝放在了后座上，并帮他系上了安全带，她的车就停在一处人烟稀少的新小区前面。她于三年前搬到了萨拉戈萨，因为她的家人难以负担城市里的生活。

    她说：“如今，我也只能自认倒霉了，因为买的房子根本不值钱，不过，尽管如此，我挺喜欢这里。”

    为什么？

    “因为很安静。”（财富中文网）

    译者：翔

    Still, some governments and banks have come around to demolition. Ireland's "bad bank," NAMA, demolished a 12-unit apartment block in County Longford last year. And there have been isolated demolitions of new and partially built houses in California. In some situations -- especially in the case of unfinished, isolated developments -- there may be no alternative.

    "If you have a development far from any town, forget about it. It will never bounce back," says Antonio Argandoña, a professor of economics at Barcelona's IESE Business School.

    On a bluff overlooking the highway to Zaragoza, five miles from La Muela, deteriorating concrete skeletons mark what was once supposed to be Ciudad Zaragoza Golf, a golfing community housing development. Of the 2,316 units planned for the first phase, only 36 have been granted occupancy licenses, says La Muela town planner Enrique Barrao. The development's handful of residents complain about non-existent municipal services, and when I ask the driver of the Zaragoza-La Muela bus line how these people get home, she shakes her head. "No bus goes there," she says.

    In downtown La Muela, however, residents are not yet thinking about demolitions; they're still coming down from a boom in which the town even subsidized their vacations. "The town paid, wherever you went," says Victor Canales, who took subsidized trips to the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. "We were a famous town for our quality of life."

    There still may be hope for La Muela. A passel of new residents have moved in, attracted by small town life and low real estate prices. At the edge of town, where the sidewalk goes to dirt, Susana Escaño straps her baby into a car seat in front of a new, sparsely occupied complex. She moved from Zaragoza three years ago, because her family couldn't afford anything in the city.

    "Now, you hit yourself in the head because what you bought is worth so little, but, oh well, I like it," she says.

    Why?

    "Mucha tranquilidad."