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musket boy
location: Maui Gender: Male
It smells like your grandpa and your feet stick to the floor
| | | | Re: Why do buildings get abandoned? <Reply # 1 on 1/7/2008 2:36 AM >
| | | it depends, what buildings are you talking about?
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Marko Kovacevic
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| | | Re: Why do buildings get abandoned? <Reply # 2 on 1/7/2008 2:46 AM >
| | | Any buildings, hotels, hospitals, factories, office buildings, homes, ect.
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rainman8889
location: H.T.S.F.C. Time to gain and a time to lose.
Bye for now.
| | Re: Why do buildings get abandoned? <Reply # 3 on 1/7/2008 3:36 AM >
| | | Posted by Marko Kovacevic Any buildings, hotels, hospitals, factories, office buildings, homes, ect.
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Many reasons. 1) Like Whitby Psych, a new facility is built rendering the old one obsolete. 2) Companies go bankrupt and there's no one else to take over the building. 3) See #2. Assets (buildings etc) are tied up until the court decides what to do with them. 4) Owner living in house dies or winds up in old age home. No one to care for the house etc. As mentioned, many reasons Marko. These are just the four that I can think of off the top of my head. Kinda sad really but that's a fact of life.
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Inascent
location: Henderson, Las Vegas, Nevada Gender: Male
Photographer. Explorer. Dreamer.
| | | | Re: Why do buildings get abandoned? <Reply # 4 on 1/7/2008 4:27 AM >
| | | In the west things go abandoned for many of the same reasons. Mines lose funding because there's nothing left to mine, or they get to a point where it's more expensive to remove the mineral than it's worth. Casinos die because of bigger better casinos. And entire towns die because of lack of supplies, the local mine shuts down, etc.
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SaraBellum
Berkshire Hunt location: Villa Villekulla Gender: Female
Coming to a cinema near you this summer.
| | | Re: Why do buildings get abandoned? <Reply # 5 on 1/7/2008 5:22 AM >
| | | In the case of psych hospitals, in patient treatment is too expensive for insurance companies most of the time. Additionally, a lot of mental diseases can be better handled with medication rather than intensive therapy. For industry, the market changes. What was once made out of steel is now made out of plastic, places have moved to other countries or other parts of the country. A building may have serious asbestos or mold issues, making the cost of refurbishment more expensive than the owner feels it's worth.
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skedius
location: Prince George, BC Gender: Male
| | Re: Why do buildings get abandoned? <Reply # 6 on 1/7/2008 6:09 AM >
| | | I guess you could say the economy's loss is our gain.
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musket boy
location: Maui Gender: Male
It smells like your grandpa and your feet stick to the floor
| | | | Re: Why do buildings get abandoned? <Reply # 7 on 1/7/2008 6:28 AM >
| | | a lot of shops and factories close because companies are realizing that its more efficient to run one giant facility than a bunch of little ones
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maypost
location: North, South, East, West, all around... then down to the underground Gender: Male
Exploring if for n00bz0rz
| | Re: Why do buildings get abandoned? <Reply # 8 on 1/7/2008 6:48 AM >
| | | They just do. Divine gifts should never be questioned, simply accepted.
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junkyard
location: LaCrosse, WI Gender: Male
Strategic Beer Command where the metal hits the meat.
| | | Re: Why do buildings get abandoned? <Reply # 9 on 1/7/2008 7:02 AM >
| | | Because people have nothing better to do with their money. I build abandoned buildings so dorks can explore them.
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Steed
location: Edmonton/Seoul Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| | | Re: Why do buildings get abandoned? <Reply # 10 on 1/7/2008 9:38 AM >
| | | A few reasons from Asia: -In Japan, there are a lot of abandoned places in the countryside that were successful up until some time (I think the mid-'90s) when mass transportation became much more affordable and people could travel halfway around the country. That's why there are so many abandoned amusement parks there too. -In Korea: -most places are abandoned so they can be demolished and new buildings can be built overtop; usually it takes a long time -one or two sites have been closed down due to accidental death.
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Intrinsic
location: Collingwood Gender: Male
| | Re: Why do buildings get abandoned? <Reply # 11 on 1/7/2008 9:42 AM >
| | | Because Mommy and Daddy buildings can no longer afford to feed them.
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Azubi.UK
location: UK / KSA Gender: Male
| | | Re: Why do buildings get abandoned? <Reply # 12 on 1/7/2008 12:05 PM >
| | | A few seconds thought mixed with commonsense would have answered this question without having to make a thread about it.
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broaddaylight
location: new joisey Gender: Female
thats me on the left, notice how im eye level with his man meat
| | Re: Why do buildings get abandoned? <Reply # 13 on 1/7/2008 12:27 PM >
| | | A lot of reasons: -they have been bad, bad buildings -they can -they are crack babies -they're dorks -they smell -they are being punished why do you always ask questions like this? [last edit 1/7/2008 12:30 PM by broaddaylight - edited 1 times]
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Doomed
location: Fredrock, Murdaland Gender: Male
Unethical Self Serving Elitist.
| | | | Re: Why do buildings get abandoned? <Reply # 14 on 1/7/2008 4:32 PM >
| | | Well in the beginning, there was heaven and there was hell. and there was a god and there was earth. and god said let there be light, and then god said let there be abandoned buildings.
Creation Theory.
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yokes
location: Toronto Gender: Male
I aim to misbehave
| | | | Re: Why do buildings get abandoned? <Reply # 15 on 1/7/2008 4:54 PM >
| | | “Technical progress inevitably escalates negative aspects inherent in it. For instance, the invention of the aeroplane is also the invention of the plane crash. In the same vein, you could say that architecture is nothing but the art of making ruins” – Paul Virillo
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Doomed
location: Fredrock, Murdaland Gender: Male
Unethical Self Serving Elitist.
| | | | Re: Why do buildings get abandoned? <Reply # 16 on 1/7/2008 4:58 PM >
| | | nice quote!
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Opheliaism
Moderator location: Out on the border of everything and nothing, TN
Ophie
| | | Re: Why do buildings get abandoned? <Reply # 17 on 1/7/2008 5:09 PM >
| | | Posted by SaraBellum In the case of psych hospitals, in patient treatment is too expensive for insurance companies most of the time. Additionally, a lot of mental diseases can be better handled with medication rather than intensive therapy.
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Also during the late 70's and early 80's, mental health leaders thought it was a lot more humane to put patients out in to the "real world". That resulted in a huge increase in the homeless population unable to maintain their medications as they had been in the hospital. EDIT: Ironic how a large amount of those people end up living in abandoned buildings. [last edit 1/7/2008 5:10 PM by Opheliaism - edited 1 times]
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MutantMandias
Perverse and Often Baffling location: Atlanta, GA Gender: Male
Are you a reporter? Contact me for a UE interview! Also not averse to the the idea of group/anal.
| | | Re: Why do buildings get abandoned? <Reply # 18 on 1/7/2008 6:09 PM >
| | | Posted by Opheliaism
Also during the late 70's and early 80's, mental health leaders thought it was a lot more humane to put patients out in to the "real world". That resulted in a huge increase in the homeless population unable to maintain their medications as they had been in the hospital.
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Well, I think you're being a little too kind by not mentioning the real source of the whole movement to oust the mentally ill and close the hospitals....
He shut them down in California as governor, then across the country as president.
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Opheliaism
Moderator location: Out on the border of everything and nothing, TN
Ophie
| | | Re: Why do buildings get abandoned? <Reply # 19 on 1/7/2008 7:54 PM >
| | | Well, I didn't want to bring politics into it, but yeah, you're right.
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