[Leica] Alone...

[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 févr. 2021 à 06:52, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> a écrit :
    > 
    > 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 España vacía” or “the empty Spain”. 
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    > 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.
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    >> On 8 Feb 2021, at 05:13, Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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    >> 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>
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    >>> i thinnk population density may be the difference
    >>> 
    >>> ric
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    >>>> On Feb 7, 2021, at 10:04 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
    >>> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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    >>>> 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
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    >>>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 7:47 AM CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
    >>>> wrote:
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    >>>>> Ashes to ashes...
    >>>>> https://2021.cartersxrd.net/2021.02.07.html
    >>>>> 
    >>>>> 
    >>>>> Ric Carter
    >>>>> www.home.CartersXRd.net
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