Crazy Idea draws global interest.
A Swedish town, with around 5000 people, launched a campaign in mid April. The town's name is Gotene who has a mayor named Johan Manson.Around 30 plots of abundant land were lying idle for decades. The mayor himself admitted that to sell those plots was a crazy idea...in fact a kind of joke. The land price was fixed at one Swedish krona($0.095) per square meter. The actual idea was to build more houses in that specific area. After few weeks Gotene managed to sell 3 plots. Something unimaginable now happened.Many Swedish media picked up the story and a video was posted on TikTok.The story of the cheap price of land attracted large number of people. Emails and calls came pouring in from a large number of buyers ! Enquiry came from Europe, Asia (India and Pakistan),US, Australia, South America etc, 'Now Gotene is in the world map.'said Mansson.