Canadian Ghost Town - abandoned 1983 while still practically brand new

[jp1]

Youtube's algorithm really does know me. This video was fascinating. A company town built for resource extraction and abandoned less than 2 years later when it was no longer economically viable. Most remarkably someone bought the whole town and has been preserving it in the hope that one day it will be re-inhabited. Maybe a great opportunity if someone can find 1200 of their closest friends to come move in and make it come back to life! But seriously, everything is still pristine, 40 years later. Amazing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tVDdIg43Ms

[Tybee]

Youtube's algorithm really does know me. This video was fascinating. A company town built for resource extraction and abandoned less than 2 years later when it was no longer economically viable. Most remarkably someone bought the whole town and has been preserving it in the hope that one day it will be re-inhabited. Maybe a great opportunity if someone can find 1200 of their closest friends to come move in and make it come back to life! But seriously, everything is still pristine, 40 years later. Amazing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tVDdIg43Ms

Bae, time to buy this and start our Simplelivingforum compound.

[iris lilies]

I’m not moving to Canada where 1st amendment rights are only lightly respected.

Besides, you guys didn’t invite me!

[catherine]

I think it would be fun as long as we had to live as if it were 1983. No cell phones, no computers, but don't forget your curling iron. Permissible music: The Police, Journey, Irene Cara. Dress code: parachute pants, stirrup pants, crop tops.

[iris lilies]

I think it would be fun as long as we had to live as if it were 1983. No cell phones, no computers, but don't forget your curling iron. Permissible music: The Police, Journey, Irene Cara. Dress code: parachute pants, stirrup pants, crop tops.

I was just watching an Irene
cara video coupla days ago!

[littlebittybobby]

There's an Alaskan island that was a military installation, which has civilian facilities to provide services just as you'd find in a small town, including a McDees. Gotta has yummy & awesumm foood, right? But yeah---the base was all but closed down and evacuated, except for a small security force. Everything appears abandoned. Also, you have remnants of late-19th and early 20th-century mining camps in AK. One of them is quite substantial. Mc-Somewthing or other. A friend biked to it, last summer. You have a you-tuber, Wonderhussy, who makes videos of abandoned places in Nevada and also Californya's Death Valley. Yup. They're all over; you just gotta look. Also, don't forget abandoned Urbana sites such as Dee-troit, St Lo, Gary, Ind., and Pa. Yup. Just gotta know where to look. That's what you kids need to do---instead o' sitting for hours on an airliner to Paree to eat snails & see the useless Eye-full tower or Itally to see the flooded streets of Venice & eat spagetti, why not buy a microcar, and tour Abandoned America? How about Lanyon or Pioneer or Bradgate, IWAH, clear up in the middle o' nowhere? Stop in to the meat locker in Rutland, IWAH, too. Yummy awesome & amayzeen. Yup.

[JaneV2.0]

Free speech is pretty much curtailed here too, although not ostensibly by the government.

[iris lilies]

Free speech is pretty much curtailed here too, although not ostensibly by the government.

Our Biden government makes secretive, behind-the-scenes attempts at tamping down wrong-speak, so I suppose you could say the government is not ostensibly doing it.

[JaneV2.0]

Our Biden government makes secretive, behind-the-scenes attempts at tamping down wrong-speak, so I suppose you could say the government is not ostensibly doing it.

Wrong-speak is tamped down in academia, in medicine, in nutrition, in probably countless other areas, by a combination of monied special interests, news outlet propaganda, social media censorship, etc.

[ToomuchStuff]

I think it would be fun as long as we had to live as if it were 1983. No cell phones, no computers, but don't forget your curling iron. Permissible music: The Police, Journey, Irene Cara. Dress code: parachute pants, stirrup pants, crop tops.

What do you mean no computers? I remember lots of different models and BBS's.