Ruin

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I wonder if any states forgot to purge squatters rights laws from the books? Things could get interesting...

Squatter's rights laws < No lawyer and the sheriff is here.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I wonder if any states forgot to purge squatters rights laws from the books? Things could get interesting...

Squatter's rights laws < No lawyer and the sheriff is here.

Yeah. It would have to be organized. And we see what happens when people organize.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I wonder if any states forgot to purge squatters rights laws from the books? Things could get interesting...

Squatter's rights laws < No lawyer and the sheriff is here.

Yeah. It would have to be organized. And we see what happens when people organize.

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[tyrannosaurus vex]

I wonder if any states forgot to purge squatters rights laws from the books? Things could get interesting...

Squatter's rights laws < No lawyer and the sheriff is here.

Yeah. It would have to be organized. And we see what happens when people organize.

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LOL TAKE THAT "THE MAN" ! OCCUPY MY POOOOP! LOL WHERES MY COSMO

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I wonder if any states forgot to purge squatters rights laws from the books? Things could get interesting...

Squatter's rights laws < No lawyer and the sheriff is here.

Yeah. It would have to be organized. And we see what happens when people organize.

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[Phox]

I went out on the upstairs back balcony to have a smoke, and I glanced down into the Neighbor's yard to the North of mine, and I was horrified.  Their swimming pool was green.  Not only that, but there were tools left where they'd been set down, before the Belgian husband came home one day to find his ever-so-religious wife schtupping some other guy.  Being a fairly mellow guy, he merely swooped up his things and the kid, and left.

Now their back yard, once the center of their lives, has become a ruin.  The table at which the wife would sit with their minister and her kid, trying in her insane way to ensure he had "the right values" is beginning to rust from the monsoon rains.  As I said, tools and hoses used to keep the garden up lie in the position they were last used in, and the garden has died.  What makes it so damn eerie is that the delapidation of the back yard is so incredibly uniform and so rapid.

I imagine the sons of the last Romanized Britons must have felt this way, looking on the ruins of a villa outside of Londonium.

Except unlike stone ruins, which look quaint, run down houses in my experience just look, well, run down.

Do you have before and after photos?

Sure, but think about it from the point of view of a person who's there. Imagine, for instance, what your parents' neighborhood would look like in a few years if it was simply neglected, but remained occupied. How would you feel? I mean, it's not like those watching the decay of Roman power were people looking in from the outside. They were Romans. They were the heirs to the broken legacy and the ruined, run down house. The overgrown fields and half-starved livestock were their own. We look at stone ruins from an outsider's view. We never lived there, or in anything that resembles it, nor were we subject to those who did. It's an intellectual, rather than visceral stimulation when you see such things.

[Da6s]

I <3 modern ruins. Abandoned subdivisions are my FAVORITE. Well, maybe my second favorite, after abandoned resorts/hotels/theaters. All that grandness, all those dreams, decaying!

I've a friend who does some pretty hardcore urban exploration and urban climbing in places. Always wanted to travel with her at some point, but she likes to do said exploration with huge viking types and then fuck them during the process. Needless to say I was never a candidate 



She had a pretty damned awesome one from the top of a crane in chicago that they climbed in the middle of the night. Couldn't find it unfortunately.

ANYWAYS

There's several abandoned ski resorts throughout here. My landlords are crazy adventure type people and do a lot of backcountry skiing at them. There's apparently all the old rope tow equipment still around plus cabins at the top. Never had the desire to go to one, considering it's a 7 hour hike from where the car is parked with all camping & riding gear. Then it's 12 minutes down and 3 hours back up. Let's not even go into the avvy risks.



There's also several abandoned mines close to me, but I've never had the dumbass whim to go exploring save barely stepping into the entrance of one near the trail head of Torrey's peak.