[Leica] Alone...

[chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Christopher Crawford)]

Abandoned houses with stuff left in them are very common in the rural areas 
of the United States, even in fairly densely populated states like Indiana. 
I've photographed a lot of them over the years, and seen some fascinating 
things left behind.

A wedding dress hanging in the attic of an abandoned farmhouse:
https://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=37

A house full of dolls and other stuff, including old family photos:
https://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-results.php?category=5

I can't imagine why people leave stuff like this behind. I can understand 
moving to a different home; people move for all sorts of reasons, but why 
not take your possessions, and why leave the house to rot instead of selling 
it? I don't have answers. The funny thing about the two places I linked 
above is that both were on the edge of Fort Wayne, Indiana's second largest 
city with 275,000 people. They weren't even in remote out of the way places! 
There's now a gas station where the wedding dress house once stood, and the 
doll house's location is surrounded by new housing developments (the house 
itself has been demolished).


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?On 2/9/21, 4:12 AM, "LUG on behalf of Philippe via LUG" 
<lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of 
lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

    Do they really leave most of their stuff to rot when they leave?
    
    We also have unoccupied decaying houses, but the authorities have the 
power to have them pulled down if they are deemed to be dangerous, and the 
bill is charged onto the owner.
    
    Amities
    
    Philippe
    
    
    
    > Le 9 f?vr. 2021 ? 06:52, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> a 
?crit :
    > 
    > You can see similar abandoned houses in the Spanish countryside. Young 
people do not want to live in a village and live the hard life of farming, 
so they move to the  cities. Over time, there are not enough children to 
keep the village school open, and a development similar to what Sonny 
describes takes place. In Spain, the pace of this change has been extremely 
rapid, leading to a phenomenon called ?La Espa?a vac?a? or ?the empty 
Spain?. 
    > 
    > In smaller or more densely populated countries such abandoned 
properties would be re-purposed since land is valuable; I never saw such 
places in the Netherlands or Switzerland. But Spain is big and its 47 
million people are heavily concentrated in the cities, so the countryside is 
extremely sparsely populated, and it shows.
    > 
    > Cheers,
    > Nathan
    > 
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    >> On 8 Feb 2021, at 05:13, Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at 
leica-users.org> wrote:
    >> 
    >> Many small southern rural towns have lost their schools to centralized
    >> campuses in a nearby larger town.  When that happens, the families 
move
    >> closer to the school, and then the businesses go away.   It is like 
that
    >> here and in Texas too.  The destitute and homeless can't survive in a
    >> deserted USA  small town.
    >> 
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    >> Regards,
    >> 
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    >> On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 9:59 PM CartersXRd via LUG <lug at 
leica-users.org>
    >> wrote:
    >> 
    >>> i thinnk population density may be the difference
    >>> 
    >>> ric
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>>> On Feb 7, 2021, at 10:04 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
    >>> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
    >>>> 
    >>>> Why are there so many derelict and abandoned buildings in your neck 
of
    >>> the
    >>>> woods? In India, these would promptly be taken over by the 
destitute and
    >>>> homeless without a second thought!
    >>>> 
    >>>> Cheers
    >>>> Jayanand
    >>>> 
    >>>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 7:47 AM CartersXRd via LUG <lug at 
leica-users.org>
    >>>> wrote:
    >>>> 
    >>>>> Ashes to ashes...
    >>>>> https://2021.cartersxrd.net/2021.02.07.html
    >>>>> 
    >>>>> 
    >>>>> Ric Carter
    >>>>> www.home.CartersXRd.net
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    >>>>> -the world?s mosst careless typist-
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