Post by Tomspy77 on Jan 8, 2013 20:49:18 GMT -6
This piece explains a why a lot of people feel an attraction towards abandoned houses and other structures.
www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/06/1176896/-The-Inexplicable-Magnetism-of-an-Abandoned-House
"It's not uncommon these days, if you live in a city, to see vacant houses. The foreclosure crisis has touched so many urban properties, depending upon what city, and what neighborhood, you live in. I can walk 9 blocks to my local Trader Joes and pass by three such homes. Two of them have plywood in the windows. The other one, I'm guessing, soon will. I pass by them and wonder...who lived there? What happened?
But mostly they don't hold much allure for me. They are, more than anything, sores upon the neighborhood at large. A missing tooth in what might otherwise be a bright smile. A blemish of sorts.
But before the Great Recession, when such houses were rare...and going back much further to my younger years, I must confess that such houses, especially in the country, always exerted a strange tug at my consciousness. They caught both my attention and my imagination. There have been many occasions where I have seen an abandoned house over the course of my life, and it didn't immediately speak to me of sudden misfortune, or some precipitous downturn in the housing market...instead, it seemed to whisper to me.
I would look at such an empty house, paint fading and chipping, perhaps a gutter coming loose...weeds high...and for some reason I felt a sense of sorrow. And then, mystery. Who used to live there? Why did they leave? Why didn't the house end up in someone else's hands? Why is it now empty? Did something tragic happen there? What was it like when it was full of life?"
www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/06/1176896/-The-Inexplicable-Magnetism-of-an-Abandoned-House
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www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/06/1176896/-The-Inexplicable-Magnetism-of-an-Abandoned-House
"It's not uncommon these days, if you live in a city, to see vacant houses. The foreclosure crisis has touched so many urban properties, depending upon what city, and what neighborhood, you live in. I can walk 9 blocks to my local Trader Joes and pass by three such homes. Two of them have plywood in the windows. The other one, I'm guessing, soon will. I pass by them and wonder...who lived there? What happened?
But mostly they don't hold much allure for me. They are, more than anything, sores upon the neighborhood at large. A missing tooth in what might otherwise be a bright smile. A blemish of sorts.
But before the Great Recession, when such houses were rare...and going back much further to my younger years, I must confess that such houses, especially in the country, always exerted a strange tug at my consciousness. They caught both my attention and my imagination. There have been many occasions where I have seen an abandoned house over the course of my life, and it didn't immediately speak to me of sudden misfortune, or some precipitous downturn in the housing market...instead, it seemed to whisper to me.
I would look at such an empty house, paint fading and chipping, perhaps a gutter coming loose...weeds high...and for some reason I felt a sense of sorrow. And then, mystery. Who used to live there? Why did they leave? Why didn't the house end up in someone else's hands? Why is it now empty? Did something tragic happen there? What was it like when it was full of life?"
www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/06/1176896/-The-Inexplicable-Magnetism-of-an-Abandoned-House
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