????而一些政府和銀行已經在拆除路上先行一步。去年，愛爾蘭“不良資產銀行”NAMA拆除了朗福德郡一個擁有12套公寓的街區。加州也對一些新房屋和未完工的房屋進行了隔離式拆除。在某些情況下，尤其是獨立開發的未完工項目，等待它們的可能只有拆除。

????巴塞羅那IESE商學院經濟學教授安東尼奧?阿甘冬娜（Antonio Argando?a）表示，“如果開發項目遠離城鎮，那你就別抱什么期望。房價回不來了。”

????離拉穆埃拉5英里遠的地方有一個能俯瞰前往薩拉戈薩高速公路的陡坡，陡坡上面佇立著殘破的混凝土屋架，也就是曾經的高爾夫社區房屋開發項目Ciudad Zaragoza Golf。拉穆埃拉鎮規劃人員恩尼克?巴拉奧說，在該項目一期計劃建造的2,316套房屋中，只有36套拿了居住許可。社區中為數不多的居民都在抱怨，社區中沒有市政服務，而且當我問薩拉戈薩-拉穆埃拉公交線路的司機這些人如何回家時，她搖了搖頭說，“沒有公交車去那個地方”。

????然而，拉穆埃拉小鎮中心的居民還沒有想過要把這些房子拆掉；他們仍在留戀小鎮曾經的繁榮，那時，鎮里甚至還為居民的旅行提供資助。維克多?卡納雷斯說：“不管你去哪，鎮里都會給你買單。我們因高質量的生活而成為了著名的小鎮。”在小鎮的資助下，維克多曾到訪過多米尼加共和國、阿根廷、巴西和墨西哥。

????拉穆埃拉可能還有希望。鎮里新來了一批居民，他們深受小鎮的生活質量和低價房產的吸引。在人行道上滿是塵土的小鎮邊緣，蘇珊娜?埃斯卡諾（Susana Esca?o）把自己的寶寶放在了后座上，并幫他系上了安全帶，她的車就停在一處人煙稀少的新小區前面。她于三年前搬到了薩拉戈薩，因為她的家人難以負擔城市里的生活。

????她說：“如今，我也只能自認倒霉了，因為買的房子根本不值錢，不過，盡管如此，我挺喜歡這里。”

????為什么？

????“因為很安靜?！保ㄘ敻恢形木W）

????譯者：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 Argando?a, 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 Esca?o 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."