ghost cities/towns

Looks beautiful. and yeah abandoned places are more beautiful cause they lack people, and they look so beautiful when it gets foggy.

>>17649003
you sound like a big gay emo

One time I met a British girl who had been teaching English in China, she said she and her friends played laser tag in one of those ghost cities which sounds cool as fuck.

In China those places are called "new areas." When the govt foresees a big flux in population, they pre-build these whole big cities for people to move into. Sometimes though for whatever reason the cities end up unpopulated or severely underpopulated. The latter seems especially interesting -- imagine a small, close-knit community of a few hundred living in a massive cityscape intended for millions.

>>17648981
China started making "mock cities" to emulate other countries major cities including a Paris with a mini eiffel tower and everything.

A lot of the projects were underfunded and nobody in China could afford to move into these cities resulting in a housing bubble.

They have tons of these empty cities

>>17649427
Kek

>>17649540
source?

>>17648981
Looks like a really cool place to wander around in for a day or two.

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The Salton Sea...

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>>17649544
Evangelion

To name a few
>Chernobyl: you should all know this one
>Varosha, Famagusta: the entire southern half of a city taken over in an invasion, it has been completely uninhabited since the 70s and is fenced off and guarded with deadly force
>Discover Island, Florida: a beach resort island that was part of Disneyland for just over a decade but then closed and was left to rot. Also rumored to have closed after a infectious brain eating amoeba was discovered in the waters.
>Various small towns or hidden cities in Russia known as "closed cities" that do not appear on maps and can not be entered.

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>>17649647
This reminds me of GTAV.

>>17652575
>Prypjat
The most fascinating location since I played CoD4, good times.

>>17652872
You should play STALKER Shadow Of Chernobyl. It's my all time favorite spooky game.

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>>17652916
Yes I heard of that but never played it, only had a HD2400 Pro back then... Maybe I'll order it when I get more old games, but I didn't even play those I already ordered. Everything went to full shit after CoD4.

>>17652923
It's an essential for sure. Just make sure you install the Complete mod, it fixes most of the bugs since it's a game made by Eastern Europe.

>>17649003
I agree anon but better than fog is with storm and rain

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>>17652953
I really love the stormy/rainy ambient on abandoned places.

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>>17649458
>you will never play laser tag in a Chinese ghost city

Also
>for whatever reason
kek'd harder than I probably should have.

>>17652899
>>17652901
>>17652903
>>17652907

These are the Abandoned "Olympic Cities" built for Olympic Games, right?

I once saw a site that showed a whole bunch of what the "Cities" they build for Olympics look like and they all looked spoopy.

Something like this, but they had more info

http://www.businessinsider.com/abandoned-olympic-venues-around-the-world-photos-2015-8

>>17648981
>tfw suicidal
>going to commit suicide by jumping off roof deck
>nothing at bottom just concrete
>nobody will even notice me and try to talk me out of it
>lonely to the bitter end

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>>17652903
>>17652883
I'm getting weird familiar vibes from these two pictures. Is this were the sniping mission in CoD4:MW took place?

>>17656107
Tours wouldn't happen to exist to this island, would there?

>>17656109
Barring some parts due to safety reasons.
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e4414.html

>>17656114
Thanks!

>>17656086
The first one yes, its the forum building, I'm unsure to the second one, but it looks like the place where you sniped on Zakhaev.

when i lived in china we visited a neighborhood like this. odd architecture meant to look like european cities. almost entirely empty, but not quite. we ate at a restaurant there and it was pretty good. no idea how they stay in business (got to be something shady even if it's just bribes or whatever.)

the story i heard about most of these places is that recent capitalist zones are creating huge wealth disparity, but in a country where the government is still super socialist. so you have government projects where they build massive housing complexes intended for poor farmers or whatever to be "modernized", but then a handful of wealthy speculators buy up all the apartments from the farmers at prices the farmers can't ignore, and then they sit waiting for the empty property to become valuable so they can sell it at a profit.

it would work great if a few people did it, but when fucking everybody does it, you end up with thousands of apartments being owned by a handful of people, nobody ever moves in, and the place falls apart because no one lives there, ensuring that no one will ever move in. but they keep doing it because China.

and somewhere somebody looks good on paper for all the shit they're building for poor people and somebody else looks good on paper for all the real estate they own and whoever it is they're looking good for hasn't figured out the scam yet.

definitely going to cause a major economic kerfluffle when the shit hits the fan, as it inevitably must.

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>>17657559
Nice tower fan. Noctua?

>>17652929
/v/fag here, and long-time STALKER-player. Don't download Complete, it makes the game way too easy and changes a bunch of things that ultimately harms the atmosphere.

There are lots of mods out there that make the game prettier or add new shit, but don't let Complete be the one for you.

>>17648981
I was travelling through China a few years back. We were on a coach going from Xi'an to ChongQuing and stopped off in the "Ancient town of 'something' Est 2010" the town had been built exactly like an ancient Chinese village. There was about 20 people in the whole town. They had plans to expand the town at least 4 times the size but hadn't completed it yet. There was high rise buildings for miles around yet no one was in them. In the town square they were giving away a new car despite being able to walk from one side of the town to the other in 5minutes. There was also a cock fighting place, so weird.

>>17660239
sounds really interesting

>>17652872
Gta v based the area around that of the Salton Sea

>>17652575
I didn't believe you about the brain eating amoeba and looked it up. Holy shit that's freaky

>>17659657
kek

>>17659482
>>17659042
Where are these? Any more info?

>>17649458
They are too expensive for the average Chinese. I also remember reading about a mall one of the biggest if not the biggest in the world. It's in China but doesn't get customers. Getting to it is apparently to much of a hassle. China fails hard at city planning.

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>>17648981
I live next to a large, abandoned industrial complex, and I can confirm that it's the dopest shit.

>>17663280
>I live next to a large, abandoned industrial complex, and I can confirm that it's the dopest shit.

Go take pics, post them.

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>>17663285
Already have them
Commencing dump

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>>17663297

Good job :)

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>>17663351
nice dump, man

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>>17663353
Thanks. A couple more pics and I'm done.

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>>17652575
Disneyworld is in Florida.

>>17654126
No that is Pripyat,

>google earth
>go to pripyat
>from the main pin go northeast towards the lake area
>go to the end of a street called ogneva
>street view
>have fun "walking" around

But seriously though...wait till you see 'it'.

>>17666065

Google earth in general is creepy.

You can just randomly zoom into some of the most remote areas, and sure as shit there'll be someone existing there or at the very least evidence of human beings.

>>17666065
What am I looking for? I must be missing it

You should go on Google earth and search for Hashima Island, Japan. It's abandoned and you can navigate it in street view. It's super eerie.

>>17663263
>>17663266
Half life 2

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>>17666065
I found this when I plopped randomly near the ferris wheel... "it's" kinda nice i guess

>>17666598
DAT ASSSSS. WOOOO!

>>17666598

If she's had an abortion it's probably haunted.

>>17657443
It's just predictive urbanization I lived in China as well, including in Ordos for a while, the district on OP's picture, the ghost town in question, is massive and has a slow but steady influx of people coming from the countryside.

Some of the ghost towns that were build 10 or so years ago only now started to fill up.

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>>17649003
>abandoned cities are comforting
dont cut yourself on that edge

>>17649427
Don't make me suck that spooky dick

>>17659482
This is that one chicken church a guy said god told him to build for some reason.

>>17667976
I don't understand how that's edgy? Normally busy noise place being quiet is normally comforting. Kinda like being at a bar after hours. Much more chill atmosphere.

I was in China last month and I've been to places like in OP's picture. I was on a highway that passed through the center of these "cities". Most are simply meant to be expansion of a highly concentrated city or town nearby. Some just happened to be build much farther than the original and they overestimate expansion rate and/or direction. However, it won't become a major economic issues based on my knowledge. They are the product of government's strategy to use their material and labor, to provide and keep them in demand.

>>17667976
>dont xut yersulf un det eege
Stay in your containment zone and lurk until you graduate to having an actual fucking thought.

>>17649458
That sounds awesome actually, living in a huge city with like 100 people.
Imagine a small farming village/community living in those skyscrapers, that'd be comfy as hell.

>>17671101
wow, cool to see an image of yourself in an abandoned psych ward that i posted in another thread a few weeks back, used in this thread. longtime lurker, that was one of my rare posts

Damn I want to go urbexing so badly.


There's an abandoned Renaissance Faire not even 20 minutes away from me but I don't know how to sneak in without using the main highway to where nobody will notice anything suspicious. Hell, there's an abandoned house just outside my window and I can't even get in there without being seen or shitting my pants.

>>17649458
Pretty sure that is the government dumping money into the local workforce to keep the economy flowing. Cool as fuck though.

>>17671101
I have that jacket.

>>17649458
sounds like some cheap real estate

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>>17663375
Feels good man

>>17657443
>whoever it is they're looking good for hasn't figured out the scam yet
but you figured it out, eh sherlock?

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>>17666065
What am I looking for, Anon?

>>17663212
First one is Bulgaria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzludzha

>>17649458
Lol No

China builds these cities to give themselves artificial GDP growth and increase the value of their hoisting market

Total scam and a power play

>>17672390

A charger for your phone.
And clean up your notifications holy fuck.

>>17673622
Nigga

>>17672343
Top kek

>>17655980
New suicide goal, go to empty cityscape to die quitely with it.

Also think of the kids exsploring finding your mashed potatoes body.
Awesome.

>>17663333
Go in that hole

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>>17659657
I hope you die soon.