In 2017, the Swiss village Albinen voted to offer a CHF25,000 ($28,000) inducement for adults and CHF10,000 for children to make their home in the village in the southwest canton of Valais.
The scheme was designed to counter a steady outflow of its population - which had shrunk to just 200 - to larger towns.
But the inducement scheme has partially backfired as the village has been swamped with 100 overseas applicants per day.
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