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    #26876545 - 08/12/20 09:22 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

This past weekend I went on about a 10 hour drive to Ruidoso, New Mexico. So I went through extremely remote and desolate parts of Texas and New Mexico.

Drove through something like twenty (give or take) remote outposts that were decaying into oblivion. A lot of these "town" had populations of less than 200 and were hours away from any decently sized town.

It was really sad, honestly. Broke my heart riding through those places. The vast majority of the businesses that once were operational at some point in time were vacant and falling apart in advanced stages of utter decay. Some of the roofs had even collapsed in altogether. Some homes still had people living in them but many homes were also clearly long ago abandoned.

The creepiest thing was how many homes I saw along the way that almost looked like someone was living in them -- but the windows were gone or boarded up, and the roofs had partly collapsed or some walls had fallen away. And there'd still be a car or two in the driveway. That was the creepiest thing. But obviously these vehicles weren't functional, as they were rusted out and appeared to have not been driven for many years. A few cars were still even parked in the garage. It was like scenes out of an apocalyptic movie.

Those places...it's almost impossible for them to make it out there. To thrive. There's barely any work/jobs there because there are extremely few businesses. People want to hang on and stay in those towns, as depressed as the towns may be -- because that's their home. So they stay. What really saddened me was that you could see clearly that they have tried to start businesses for the few people in town (like a bbq joint, a diner, some random storefronts, etc.) but almost all ultimately failed at some point and were abandoned to decay because nobody in the town has money to spend. Nobody driving through (like myself) stop by to support the very few businesses they have that are still alive.

Like I drove by a handful of roadside fruit stands in the middle of nowhere but instead of stopping by and spending some money there to help them out I just ended up back home in Dallas last night only to order a few things from earth overlord Jeff Bezos and go to the huge chain grocery store across the street. Meanwhile those poor people out there in the middle of nowhere can afford to even keep their homes from literally falling apart around them.











Anyway TLDR: seeing dying small towns kinda made me sad but by tomorrow I'll have forgotten about them completely and will be back to helping feed all the mega chains here in city so their CEOs can trade in their old yachts for new ones

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Re: Small town America [Re: Niffla] * 4
    #26876546 - 08/12/20 09:23 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Here's some small town decay porn :sad:











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Re: Small town America [Re: Niffla] * 3
    #26876564 - 08/12/20 09:30 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)















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Re: Small town America [Re: Niffla] * 5
    #26876596 - 08/12/20 09:47 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Darn, heartbreaking. Did you take the photos? They're sadly beautiful.

I often think about our species' urge to keep going bigger and more. A company isn't doing well just because its profits are steady and its customers are satisfied; businesses must EXPAND; sales plans and revenues must INCREASE quarter after quarter, year after year.

How is that sustainable?

I think it is a toxic idea that is leading society down a bad path. Because companies must expand to be considered worthwhile and respected, they eat smaller companies up to get more and more market share. Smaller companies or businesses have no choice to be eaten up when their competition hits critical mass and gets so much market share they can't make a profit.

At the bottom, there's little room anymore to be a small business that pays the bills and provides a useful service to the community. The need for the biggest companies to keep getting bigger chokes them out, even when the big companies really don't need the business they're stealing from the little guys to make a profit.


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Re: Small town America [Re: the strander]
    #26876603 - 08/12/20 09:55 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

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Darn, heartbreaking. Did you take the photos? They're sadly beautiful.






No I didn't -- those are photos I just pulled off the internet. I should have though because I drove by about a million of them this past weekend.  And when you go through the "towns" if you blink they're already well behind you in the rear view mirror.

But yeah strander, good post and I agree.


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Re: Small town America [Re: Niffla]
    #26876732 - 08/12/20 11:20 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

You ever wonder what if you were born into one of those small towns. Would you realize it? Whenever i drive through these small unknown ghost towns i stop at the gas stations and stuff and always wonder about the person working in there, how bizzarre it is to me that they were born and raised in that super desolated ghostly place, do they know whats outside? Have they ever left that place? What do they do for fun after work? I try my best to imagine a day in their life in their shoes.


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Re: Small town America [Re: trees] * 2
    #26876737 - 08/12/20 11:24 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

We have these things with wheels and they drink gasolines and go vroom vroom they help you get places . I imagine that's how life works outside of the city.. it's amazing those animals even manage to survive out there, in the wild.


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Re: Small town America [Re: Niffla]
    #26876761 - 08/12/20 11:41 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Those people need paint.


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Re: Small town America [Re: the strander]
    #26876768 - 08/12/20 11:51 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

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I often think about our species' urge to keep going bigger and more. A company isn't doing well just because its profits are steady and its customers are satisfied; businesses must EXPAND; sales plans and revenues must INCREASE quarter after quarter, year after year.

How is that sustainable?






I think the other side of that line of thought is, what makes you think it should be sustainable? Everything has a life cycle.


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Re: Small town America [Re: trees]
    #26876793 - 08/12/20 12:10 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

I lived in rural OK for 4.5 years, and grew up in Texas from the 60's. Some of those small town people absolutely HATE bigger/big cities and despise ANYTHING that has to do with progress or renovating, gentrification and so on. They like the small town and want it to stay that way.


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Re: Small town America [Re: trees]
    #26876799 - 08/12/20 12:16 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

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You ever wonder what if you were born into one of those small towns. Would you realize it? Whenever i drive through these small unknown ghost towns i stop at the gas stations and stuff and always wonder about the person working in there, how bizzarre it is to me that they were born and raised in that super desolated ghostly place, do they know whats outside? Have they ever left that place? What do they do for fun after work? I try my best to imagine a day in their life in their shoes.




Who knows. Night life (lol) obviously doesn't exist out there. But I'm sure they find ways to occupy their time. Someone sober could do a lot of reading. Spending time in their garden if they got one. I'm sure they sit around watching a lot of TV. Judge Judy everyday probably.

If you're out there and aren't into being sober then there's always the hardcore alcoholic thing one could do. And of course another small town favorite past time -- meth. Although those seem to be favorite past times of many large cities as well.


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Re: Small town America [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26876809 - 08/12/20 12:24 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

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I lived in rural OK for 4.5 years, and grew up in Texas from the 60's. Some of those small town people absolutely HATE bigger/big cities and despise ANYTHING that has to do with progress or renovating, gentrification and so on. They like the small town and want it to stay that way.




I actually get why they hate cities. Heck I hate cities too at this point.  I'm so over cities. (been living in cities my entire existence). Now I'm not saying I want to go live out my days in a decaying, falling apart town of 200 that is against progress. But a little place like Ruidoso that is gorgeous and has amazing views and endless nature & outdoor opportunities? YES. Please.

But cities...they're polluted. Crime infested. The traffic is atrocious. There are plenty of cool things that cities provide too obviously, but the drawbacks are definitely pretty immense IMO.


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Re: Small town America [Re: Niffla] * 1
    #26876810 - 08/12/20 12:27 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

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I actually get why they hate cities. Heck I hate cities too at this point.  I'm so over cities. (been living in cities my entire existence).



I feel you there brother. I had a ten month break when I lived in the middle of nowhere, Australia, back in '17, and I've had no desire to ever live in a city again since.


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Re: Small town America [Re: Niffla] * 1
    #26876812 - 08/12/20 12:28 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Downtown in a decent sized small town is where it's at. You can still walk around, and there are places to go, but crime and other stresses of the city are non-existent.

It's hard to make a living like that though. I hope this coronavirus work from home trend never ends. As soon as I find out it's permanent, I'm buying a house in a small town.


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    #26876815 - 08/12/20 12:29 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

That said if you give me the choice between city life and a dying, depressed town in the middle of nowhere west TX or wherever then I have to of course go with the city and all its evils that come with it. For obvious reasons.

I do think it would be an interesting experience though to live in one of those decaying towns for like 3 months...just to see how daily life is in their world. Which is obviously worlds away from living in a metropolis.


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    #26876823 - 08/12/20 12:33 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

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I feel you there brother. I had a ten month break when I lived in the middle of nowhere, Australia




I have no problem at all with middle of nowhere, and would unquestionably prefer it to city living -- so long as it has great outdoor opportunities. Then I'm gold. And I'm assuming pretty much anywhere in the outback has wonderful nature everywhere around at your disposal.

But man some of these decaying and dying towns in TX where it's dry and arid and savagely hot -- and then combine that with the decay of those poor towns and it is really, really depressing.


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Re: Small town America [Re: Niffla] * 1
    #26876824 - 08/12/20 12:34 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

I'm sure you can still get drugs in a dilapidated building that says "drugs" on it just fine


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    #26876826 - 08/12/20 12:35 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

I lived here for a little bit when I was younger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_Hash,_Kentucky

A dog was the mayor. :lol:


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    #26876830 - 08/12/20 12:36 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

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I often think about our species' urge to keep going bigger and more. A company isn't doing well just because its profits are steady and its customers are satisfied; businesses must EXPAND; sales plans and revenues must INCREASE quarter after quarter, year after year.

How is that sustainable?






I think the other side of that line of thought is, what makes you think it should be sustainable? Everything has a life cycle.




True. Unfortunately I don't think we're talking about this just at the level of an individual business. I think it applies to the entire species. We can't keep getting bigger and bigger and doing more and more.

In 100 years Google and Amazon are going to own everything, due to their quest to get bigger and bigger as fast as possible. It will not be good for us.


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    #26876832 - 08/12/20 12:39 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

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A dog was the mayor. :lol:




was this him



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