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| | | | | Posted by Doug The times when YOU are exploring will be the BEST times. |
| | | Posted by FreeLee One of the reasons I don't use much social media is the highlight real. I don't think UER is better or worse, its just changing. Its easy to cherry pick aspects of change to support one side or the other. |
| | | | | | | Posted by strangePlaces One will have to be blind to say that exploring stayed "the same" At least from Toronto-centric perspective the landscape is nowhere nearly as abundant as it used to be. Golden age existed, and now we are in some sort of new era, which is not necessarily bad, but certainly quite quite different. Huge epic industrial locations are all gone, and this scale of industrial legacy will never repeat like this. Think of a dozen classic spots that stayed here for decades. Now, even if something pops up, it goes relatively quickly. Public/media/authorities awareness is much higher, too many things have been done by too many people without regard to the nature of the hobby. Security technology have gone crazy, explorers of older age did not have to deal with something like this. It doesnt take a lot of effort to see it - go to any explorable site and problems are hanging by the dozen everywhere. I hope that all the wrong things will burn off at some point and some new equilibrium will be established. And as good as it may be, I will still miss the way everything's been long time ago. |
| | | | | Posted by mookster In the eleven years I've been exploring, the 'scene' or 'community' has evolved into something totally unrecognisable, in that the sense of community has all but vanished yet the 'scene' is filled with more people than ever before. Instagram and Youtube have done a real disservice to what used to be a fairly well kept secret, certainly nothing, or comparatively little, is kept secret in the same way it used to be thanks to the sheer quantity of morons and level of exposure places get on those channels nowadays. A lot of the great places of yesteryear have gone, but there is still plenty out there to see now, especially if you don't follow the herd of social media sheep to the latest 'flavour of the month' spot and do your own thing with your own people. Just don't set your sights on finding an untouched time capsule asylum as, at least in the UK, any such newly closed hospital or asylum is stripped bare within a matter of weeks by contractors. Those sort of places don't exist any more but times changes and people are still discovering new things to do and places to go. To all the people who have just recently gotten into it - were there some amazing places around in the 'old' days? Yes. Are there still incredible places to explore now? Also yes. Just go out and find them. |
| | | | | Posted by blitz Golden years of UE for me were when I was under 18 and able to get away with pretty much anything under the auspices of being a "dumb kid". A 30 year old man trespassing doesn't go so well anymore - when I UE now I pretend to be a real estate broker looking at delinquent properties, but it's just not as fun as running from fat cops & security guards... |
| | | Posted by Radio2600 Times change. Adapt and overcome. BE THE BORG |
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