The Rust Belt is a Different World
Published at 08:57 on 17 October 2014
It’s not a complete surprise to me that there’s many abandoned homes in such places.
What’s hard for me to understand is how all the furniture inside them was also just abandoned in many cases. The houses might have been doomed by a location that is no longer considered desirable, but all that furniture still has some value and it’s really not that difficult to move furniture. One would think that would be done.
The family mementos are also a surprise. Those people had relatives, and things like framed photographs are easy to take.
It’s not the first time such things have struck me as odd, and it’s not just abandoned residences, either. I’ve also been struck by how many abandoned furnishings are evident in photos of derelict commercial and institutional structures in Detroit.