The biggest dump you've see on Google Street View

Why do I find so much interest for those American towns like in OPs links? I find them fascinating to look at, but I'm not sure I'd want to live there. Maybe just to photograph.
 
Lowe said:
Goscote in Walsall.

End thread. :)

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...8HbmHKYiow9bMRpcYb3ilQ&cbp=12,140.96,,0,17.22

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&i...oid=uR4XWB7jjcZAKuKDuJlg4A&cbp=12,273.22,,0,5

It's even worse now!
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Thing is, the houses aren't bad - it'd probably look nice if people living there gave a ****! ;)

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...=9gOsadZ6hiIpShk9HbFVyw&cbp=12,204.58,,0,5.48

Nice Pet Store! :D LOL! One thing that amazes me about the states is that in many places, even the deprived have plenty of land around their homes... It's a bit of an odd contrast to all our terraces and highly-concentrated developments (I know it's because we don't have the same amount of land, but it still intrigues me).

EDIT: Looking around Jaywick, that's mental! Funny how not far away there's a caravan site that's nicely maintained. Wonder if they see much going missing where locals may have resorted to crime?
 
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Thing is, even in this country the 'deprived' areas can still look pretty nice on a sunny day. We have so little space (apart from the areas we'd like to keep green) in this country that as soon as a place falls into enough disrepair, it gets regenerated.

Some of the rougher places in cities now are those which were built up new and shiny postwar - you can tell by the strange concentric or patterned roads as seen from above, in an effort to being about community by placement. I daresay these areas may see more change in the future...

...in America if a place falls into disrepair and is no good to live in any more, they just hip out and build elsewhere - it's not really worth their while spending money to tear down the original stuff and rebuild in place.
 
dekez said:
I wonder how much those houses cost, and why are they not for sale? You could buy the whole street up and knock through into one massive house :D
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Funny how there's a nicer-looking area just over the road (Woborn Rd)

That place is grim though... Yikes.


@lolism.... Where on streetview is that? :p Also... no sweetcorn. I am disappoint.
 
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dekez said:
I wonder how much those houses cost, and why are they not for sale? You could buy the whole street up and knock through into one massive house :D
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The rot set in when Pleasley Colliery shut in 1983, nearly all of Nottinghamshire's remaining pits closed in the 80's and 90's, taking massive numers of jobs with them. A street in the village was levelled in the 90's and rebuilt as it had suffered the same fate- complete dereliction. It's a travesty that the local council has allowed these to stand for as long as they have- if you enter Mansfield along the A617 from the M1 you will see rows upon rows of empty terraced houses- a great advert for visitors to the town!

Go down the A617 for a mile or so further into Mansfield and you may glimpse this street which is more of the same

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&l...=Y0jI3_VSL8va9V9M9zos5Q&cbp=12,183.73,,0,5.32

A couple more that are similar are nearby. Nearby Mansfield Woodhouse suffered the same fate, whole streets have been flattened and redeveloped as new housing.

How much would one cost if you could buy one? More than you'd think in all honesty. You can get a bottom end terraced house in the Mansfield area for around £50,000 nowadays on a street that actually resembles normality. I remember even in my short lifetime (I'm 25) when you could buy a 2/3 bed terraced house in the same locale for around £12,000, maybe even less at auction. This would have been perhaps around 12 years ago.

My dad always tells about how you could pick up similar properties (not on a street full of boarded up houses) in the Eighties for £900 (Yes, nine-hundred Pounds!) though they doubtless needed a but of modernisation and TLC.

Anyone that says houses aren't over-priced today and have never been affordable is deluded, prices today are still ridiculous and were much more affordable in the past, even accounting for inflation, wage growth, interest rates, availability of mortgages and all the rest of it.
 
Fusion said:
The rot set in when Pleasley Colliery shut in 1983, nearly all of Nottinghamshire's remaining pits closed in the 80's and 90's, taking massive numers of jobs.. snip.
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If you get property for that price £900 or even £12000 in the uk, i would buy a whole street worth and then level the properties and you could start growing some crops and build yourself a house etc.

That is what is happening in detroit where they are converting the streets to farms.
 
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