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 Snickerpuss
Location: Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
 |  | Small Towns.
< on 5/24/2008 5:17 PM >
|  | | | Well small towns appear to be an absoulote terrible place for us explorers. However theres more than what meets the eye. I live in a small town outside of Niagara Falls and with maybe 15,000 people at best it seems like a terrible place for exploring. The town is mostly summer homes.
Sounds depressing but infact its not as far as exploring goes, abandoned cottages are found everywhere and some are pretty nice homes with a view of the water.
So this paragraph is more a less an inspirational speech for you explorers who think theres no where to explore. Just take a look around town you'll find somthing. Anyways after this I plan on writing an articale about finding abandonments so I suggest checking that out, good luck and have fun.
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Furious D
     
Location: Northern Ontario
Gender: Male
The Night Time is the Right Time
| | Re: Small Towns.
<Reply # 1 on 5/24/2008 5:30 PM >
| | | | LOL, 15,000 people eh...
The town that I live in has about 4000 people.
Try exploring a place with 12.
Or ZERO
You can find anything to explore anywhere!
Edit: Spelling
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"The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Fame is a by-product of doing something else. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit."
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logtec
Location: Logtec is the UER representative for Scarborough, Ontario.
Gender: Male
Nice head, what's in the bag?
| |  | Re: Small Towns.
<Reply # 2 on 5/24/2008 5:43 PM >
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nice pix...
They say "you can't judge a book by its cover!" I say "YES you can, if the cover has a girl on it with a cock in her mouth, its PORN!" if she's 18 and the cock is black, its GREAT porn! |
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PhotoSeeker
Location: Sudbury
Gender: Male
MikeOnline
| | | Re: Small Towns.
<Reply # 3 on 5/24/2008 9:59 PM >
| | | | Like 'em both, but the second one rox!
Lots of Urban Exploration goodness at https://urbexobsession.com |
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tholcomb
Location: Chattanooga, TN
Gender: Male
Captain Baghead!
| | Re: Small Towns.
<Reply # 4 on 5/24/2008 11:35 PM >
| | | | 15,000 people is a small town?
Sounds like all the people in my county.
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suicidepactphoto
Location: Western New York
Gender: Male
" Did he who made the lamb make thee? "
| |  | Re: Small Towns.
<Reply # 5 on 5/24/2008 11:43 PM >
| | | | Niagara Falls NY or Niagara Falls Ontario? What town do you live in?
"We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeves"
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Ghostboy
| | Re: Small Towns.
<Reply # 6 on 5/25/2008 4:44 PM >
| | | | Is that first pic from Dorothy Alberta?
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Furious D
Location: Northern Ontario
Gender: Male
The Night Time is the Right Time
| | Re: Small Towns.
<Reply # 7 on 5/25/2008 6:42 PM >
| | | | Posted by Ghostboy
Is that first pic from Dorothy Alberta?
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Yup.
"The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Fame is a by-product of doing something else. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit."
-Banksy
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Steed
  
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| | | Re: Small Towns.
<Reply # 8 on 5/27/2008 4:26 AM >
| | | | And I'm guessing it's gone now?
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Samurai
 
Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | Re: Small Towns.
<Reply # 9 on 5/27/2008 1:25 PM >
| | | | Posted by Snickerpuss
Well small towns appear to be an absoulote terrible place for us explorers. However theres more than what meets the eye. I live in a small town outside of Niagara Falls and with maybe 15,000 people at best it seems like a terrible place for exploring. The town is mostly summer homes.
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15,000 people a small town?
my aunt and uncle live in a town with 400 people in it. (North Hudson, NY)
Just past them, heading west, Newcomb NY has a school with a total (k-12) of 64 kids... their graduating class was two!
My own town of Moriah is less than 5000 people now! 
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IDChris
Location: Southern Idaho Wasteland
Gender: Male
| | Re: Small Towns.
<Reply # 10 on 5/27/2008 7:15 PM >
| | | | Small towns are great for exploration. What matters most is not the current population, but past census figures. Hopefully, they were much larger at one time.
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Snickerpuss
Location: Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
| | Re: Small Towns.
<Reply # 11 on 5/27/2008 7:32 PM >
| | | | Well I liev in Fort Erie, 15,000 people isnt just in the town of Fort Erie that includes the surronding towns around it ( ridgway, stevensvile.. ) so the town of Fort Erie itself is probably 5,000 not very big, but not to scall ither.
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Samurai
Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | Re: Small Towns.
<Reply # 12 on 5/28/2008 4:14 AM >
| | | | Posted by IDChris
Small towns are great for exploration. What matters most is not the current population, but past census figures. Hopefully, they were much larger at one time.
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Up until the early 1970's, the town I lived had a much larger population due to the prosperous mining operation there... Republic Steel operated iron ore mines until 1972 when they deemed that, despite it's incredibly high quality, it was just too expensive to mine there. After almost 100 years of mining, that was it for Moriah NY. The mines were idled in 1972 and the pumps shut off in 1973. And people began to leave... in a hurry. I'm not sure how old most of you are, but I dare say that many of you are old enough to remember living during the 1970's and how economically depressed it was... there was only one other industry in the area and that was a paper mill being run by, at the time, a distressed, wayward international monolith of a company that was two steps away from receivership!
This area never recovered it's population, but there are still reminders of the past here, ghosts of mines and the stuff left behind.
this scenario played out all over northern New York even into the 1980's. Communities simply dried up. Places like Newcomb NY had the National Lead operation at Tahawus. That closed in the late 80's for good. People began to leave Newcomb. Benson Mines near Star Lake, NY... same thing. Chateaugay, Lyon Mountain, Standish, all towns that were based on mining, shadows of themselves.
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Wrrrbat
Location: Vancouver BC Canada
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Small Towns.
<Reply # 13 on 5/30/2008 10:47 PM >
| | | | Posted by IDChris
Small towns are great for exploration. What matters most is not the current population, but past census figures. Hopefully, they were much larger at one time.
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It also matters how you go about exploring. I agree 15000 isn't small, but once you get down to the really small towns it pays to somehow let people (read: police) know you're a history buff or a photographer of some kind.
It can help you find out about something you would otherwise miss and can also mean that people will not think twice about you wandering about a location that you maybe shouldn't actually be on. The alternative can easily be panic and the local law giving you a hard time :-/
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Silent Knight
Location: Niagara region
Gender: Male
Kastle Archives Productions Inc. (since 1999)
| | | Re: Small Towns.
<Reply # 14 on 5/31/2008 6:19 PM >
| | | | Posted by Snickerpuss
Well I liev in Fort Erie, 15,000 people isnt just in the town of Fort Erie that includes the surronding towns around it ( ridgway, stevensvile.. ) so the town of Fort Erie itself is probably 5,000 not very big, but not to scall ither.
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Fort Erie's just a short jaunt from Niagara Falls, St. Kitts and all the other Niagara region areas - hardly an isolated little town.
Besides that, there's quite a few decent places to explore besides abandoned cottages in Fort Erie. Plus you're only a bridge away from all the great sites in Buffalo, N.Y.
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