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That's a small area of run down industrial estate. If you look at the surrounding residential estates, it doesn't look that bad a place.
The biggest dump you've see on Google Street View
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That's a small area of run down industrial estate. If you look at the surrounding residential estates, it doesn't look that bad a place.
Very interesting thanks, and by a funny coincidence I am actually driving to Nottingham tomorrow from London so will keep my eye out for some of these charms.
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My google maps aren't working right now for some reason. Take a look at the River Rouge and Highland Park areas, west-south-west of Detroit. They make [that ghetto area of] Detroit look modern and clean.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!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?
Of course, just like every major city, there are very nice places and very nasty places. Why, just north-east of Detroit is Grosse Pointe. Take a drive down Jefferson there. A totally different world.
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The place would look fine if the people living in those houses actually put a little work in and cleaned it up.
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Same applies to the vast majority of these so called 'dumps' in the UK, the environment is only as good as the people that live in it.
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Sofia Bulgaria. It's so bad, the google street cars won't go there lol
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Some bad places in Glasgow, not sure of the street names though. Coincidently I am on Street View walking to the shop 
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The links of New Mexico and Michigan are awesome! I just freaking love all those old signs, run down buildings etc. It truly fascinates me.
The state with the most abandoned / ghost towns is Oregon. Sadly a lot of the ghost towns aren't on google streetview
In fact most that I look for aren't.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...oC7XmYRpPXXaPxUZTJHJ4Q&cbp=12,314.15,,0,-1.36
This one is gorgeous. The little post office is fantastic too. This place is semi/near ghost town. It has a small resident population, many abandoned buildings. It's an early 1900s railroad and agricultural town.
I'd love to find loads of American ghost towns to take photos of them and just experience them. Another place I'd love to visit is Pripyat, Ukraine.
The state with the most abandoned / ghost towns is Oregon. Sadly a lot of the ghost towns aren't on google streetview
In fact most that I look for aren't.http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...oC7XmYRpPXXaPxUZTJHJ4Q&cbp=12,314.15,,0,-1.36
This one is gorgeous. The little post office is fantastic too. This place is semi/near ghost town. It has a small resident population, many abandoned buildings. It's an early 1900s railroad and agricultural town.
I'd love to find loads of American ghost towns to take photos of them and just experience them. Another place I'd love to visit is Pripyat, Ukraine.
Goscote in Walsall.
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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!
Walsall fullstop.
i knew that was coming !
amazingly that area is now a green field. they where boarded up like that for years though after everyone got evicted , a mate lived on a nearby estate and had gypsies trying to steal his gas pipes while he was sleeping and while the gas was still on.
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Agreed. Spent a bit of time in that area. Can't get too much worse than East St Louis.
How did the area get so bad? I know there are a lot of almost deserted areas in Middlesborough, I was just surprised to find one in my first hit!
Oh and here's an interesting one closer to where I am.
Something not quite right about this housing estate
Something not quite right about this housing estate