Nomadic Family Buys Abandoned Japanese Ski Town Home for $22,000

We bought an abandoned home in a Japanese ski town for $22,000. It's given our nomadic family the home base we were missing.

Lloyd Enbom and his wife bought a house in Nagano Prefecture in Japan. Courtesy of Lloyd Enbom Lloyd Enbom and his wife paid $22,000 for a home in Hakuba, Japan, a rural ski town. Their home was less expensive than it would have been elsewhere, but it requires a lot of work. The couple intends to keep traveling with their young daughter while living in Japan half the year. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lloyd Enbom, 40, a content creator who purchased an abandoned hom...