I met the last family left in an abandoned neighborhood

[twoamigoshvac]

For those of you wondering, as I was, Amazon bought the neighborhood to build two warehouses. 64 million in total

[aakkh]

People don’t just leave their homes like that unless they are offered something they can’t refuse

[robinmp]

happened to a girl I knew, they wanted to build offices and hers was the only one left, she ended up getting close to a million dollars for her house that at the time was only worth 60, 000, she is rich now and owns her own charity stable farm for abused horses, donkeys, goats and sheep, she rehabilitates them and houses them.

[minermike]

I sold my 85k house in Phoenix a year ago 300k. Others were getting 400k and I realized that my property taxes would go sky high soon. My brother convinced me to sell and live rent free in one of his houses. I still feel unsettled but I am happier and live in a greener state. I am watching my nation decline just as Rome did but we are getting a push toward WEF demands. Be wise my friends and fellow Americans. I love all of you regardless of whether you lean left or right. THink fo yourselves and stop trusting a failed and corrupt government. Be kind to your neighbors and the stranger

[RayfieldA]

Sounds like a prime location for a huge filming opportunity.

[mynewhandle]

And the HOA still fines them for not mowing the lawn 😂😂

[somerandomyoutubechannel]

I worked as a journalist for many years, and I remember an entire neighborhood that was being bought out for a new shopping district. It took 8 years for the sales to happen and the development to finally start. That's incredibly hard on families. You are waiting for the buyout and not wanting to invest in this home that you are not going to keep, but yet the developer NEVER gets to it. Most of my career, I was covering that story, watching these families go from being patient, to being devastated. Cities should not allow this happen. If you have families abandoning belongings like that, it's usually because the developer took far too long to pay out.

[theRealUmpZY]

i had 3 neighborhood demolished in my city. guess what’s gonna be out there?
Apartments. “Affordable housing” that will cost 30k a year.
THEY DONT WANT US TO OWN PROPERTY

[decormiamour]

To leave all their belongings, that check must have been really sweet.

[sleepingontheblacktop]

Imagine being the only person to live in an entire neighborhood. I call that a dream come true.

[wayneesver]

Google did that in NC. They sent realtors to make offers throughout the neighborhood that acted like individual buyers spending their own money so they wouldn’t pay more than face value

[exit]

For a real story of an abandoned town, do a search of Centralia PA an underground fire forced everyone to leave, still burning to this day

[hipsterviking]

I can’t imagine leaving my personal belongings behind like that.

[missykowalewski]

There was an completely abandoned neighborhood less than 5 miles from me. Sat for years before the demolishing began. It’s now Convoy of Hope.

[genesisr]

I'm so glad that they tried this in my neighborhood and couldn't do it considering over half of people actually owned the property outright. Yeah they tried giving us double and triple the property's value but we still said no.

[maribelgarcia]

It's mind blowing to think with all the abandoned home over our nation, how many families could've had homes and at least try to keep up with the homes but Definitely wouldn't be homeless/struggling.

[actionA]

And then canceled the orders for the new warehouses recently because they know what's coming.

[krypniteking]

i woulda cleared all of them houses, rented a storage unit and opened me a discounted furniture store.

[dianabanana]

we were the last in our neighborhood too. developers bought it to build warehouses. we werent able ro visit the other homes though they had security around the neighborhood. although homeless people were found there often and one house was even burned down by homeless.

[adellsternberg]

And wow, such gorgeous, beautiful fantastic houses, oh my god wow, I'd give my right arm to live in a house that even looks like that after it's wrecked, would still look 1, 000 times better than my old old house