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@joost - i grew up next to route 66, which is littered with places like this. some still thriving, others not so much.
@joost There is a lot of abandoned... stuff in the US. But people mostly tend to not live in those areas, or prefer to move away when they can. It's sad because there's so much waste, but there's also not much need for a lot of those places any more. There's not as much Detroit-style ruins porn as you'd expect, which happens people and businesses packed up and left in a relatively short time; mostly towns are rotting away slowly as fewer people each generation have to work harder at trying to keep the stuff that remains working, and while their friends and neighbors get out when they can.
@ardgedee @danelectro I've seen abandoned farms in California. Nothing like that in the NL. But that's not because we don't have so called disruptions. Industries and attendant communities becoming obsolete. It's just because we're a tiny densely populated country. So no terrain lies around unused; ruin porn gets repurposed almost immediately for something else.
There's plenty of ruin porn in the EU though. In countries that are less densely populated than the NL. Which is most.
I remember going through Sudetenland; the Germany bordering part of the Czech Republic. All the young people seemed to have left. Lots of old farms and buildings for sale.
There are plenty of areas like that in the EU as well.
Former glory.
There's plenty of ruin porn in the EU though. In countries that are less densely populated than the NL. Which is most.
I remember going through Sudetenland; the Germany bordering part of the Czech Republic. All the young people seemed to have left. Lots of old farms and buildings for sale.
There are plenty of areas like that in the EU as well.
Former glory.
@joost One of the key differences in the US is that our ruin porn is SO recent. Sure, we have barns & old decrepit wooden homes crumbling in rural CA or Oregon, etc, but we have entire thriving cities that boomed as recently as the late 1950s that now sit entirely abandoned. So the ruins are neon & semi-modern, which is (to me at least) always jarring. One expects to see old barns & crumbling homesteads, but places like Salton City are just post apocalyptic.
I'm in the NL and my knowledge comes mostly from movies. :-)