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kleinbl00  ·  2066 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So You Bought a Ghost Town

    Jake Rasmuson, the real-estate agent, told The Outline that “there is not a demographic out there that does not want to buy a ghost town.”

(raises hand)

"uhm, excuse me..."

I spent too much time in Jerome, Arizona. There are ghosts. You see them everywhere you look. I slept about a hundred yards from a bombed-out 3-story high school that hadn't graduated a class since the '50s. Everywhere you look? You see things that people didn't want to leave.

Ghost towns are places where dreams died. Maybe it's easier if you don't pay attention. I dunno. But I've driven through Arizona too many times and every time I take the back roads, I see more ghost towns that were small towns the last time. I guess if you can wash it away with a hundred years of history it's a little less poignant but I mean... once you've seen a house that nobody is ever going to take the LED icicle lights off of you lose your taste for it. Or at least, I would have if I ever had any.





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kleinbl00  ·  2066 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You're not wrong. Just keep in mind that vocabulary gets pretty loosey-goosey when dealing with real estate agents.

Having grown up in New Mexico, Tucumcari was big enough that it got listed in the weather reports. If I recall correctly it had car dealerships. But then, it was 40% bigger back then.