“A second depression, triggered by mass layoffs, bankruptcies, and the popping of the ‘derivatives bubble,’ will see people moving out of cities.”
This site repels and fascinates me at the same time:
http://www.100abandonedhouses.com/
Haunts me too. I think about how that was once someone's fine new home; a place of family, joy, and pride.
Some of them are (or were) just beautiful. It’s sickening. Those brick High Victorians have to be in Detroit, nobody else would abandon them, they’re rare and treasured.
Or, maybe I’m thinking too much as a southerner, we were beat down and mostly poor during the era in which the style was at it’s peak. To see a Second Empire building down here is a rare treat, and they’re never in disrepair, they are treasured, as I said, almost as much as antebellum plantation houses or pre-Revolution log cabins.
and the way the Rats are going crazy in Madison the next depression will be here in Wisconsin before we know it.
Very interesting...makes me think about putting together a salvage op...all those bricks, and old timbers, probably hardwood floors here and there, hidden beneath deteriorating 70s or 80s era wall-to-wall carpeting. There is a treasure trove of recycleable/reclaimable building supplies to be had there!
AAC
I bet a large percentage are in Detroit.