I love your pictures, but they all look like ghost towns. Is that deliberate on your part, or are these towns really that deserted? I deliberately put quite a bit of effort into taking pictures of airplanes, etc. with no bystanders in them - just curious if you're doing that too.
These are not ghost towns as you see in the West and Southwest. Rather, they are "real" towns populated with a few "real" people. What you see is the result of jobs, opportunites and business leaving the small local communities. With roads/automobiles-trucks folks are able to quickly travel to a larger location to work and to purchase goods and supplies. Also,there is the "Big Box" stores that seem to be everywhere-that's another story!
Thanks for the reply, although it's somewhat depressing.
We're at risk of losing a large part of the heterogeneity that defines our country as more and more of our communities and businesses are sacrificed to the altar of "price rollbacks" and suburbia.
Election Day 2006.
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I love your pictures, but they all look like ghost towns. Is that deliberate on your part, or are these towns really that deserted? I deliberately put quite a bit of effort into taking pictures of airplanes, etc. with no bystanders in them - just curious if you're doing that too.
These are not ghost towns as you see in the West and Southwest. Rather, they are "real" towns populated with a few "real" people. What you see is the result of jobs, opportunites and business leaving the small local communities. With roads/automobiles-trucks folks are able to quickly travel to a larger location to work and to purchase goods and supplies. Also,there is the "Big Box" stores that seem to be everywhere-that's another story!
Thanks for the reply, although it's somewhat depressing.
We're at risk of losing a large part of the heterogeneity that defines our country as more and more of our communities and businesses are sacrificed to the altar of "price rollbacks" and suburbia.
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