Monday 30 March 2015

I see these places on side roads

The location does not matter but it was between Drumheller and Delia. You see abandoned places in bleak settings. I often wonder if one day someone just gave up and left. The line in the photo is a powerline running by a secondary highway.  


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  1. Sad to see a nice little home just abandoned. Probably an interesting story behind it.

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    1. I would like to think there was an interesting story behind it. Truth be told there probably isn't. This one was in the middle of nowhere in the Alberta badlands.

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  2. I would expect kids got jobs and moved away.
    Parents passed and no immediate family moved in.
    There's an old 2 story farmhouse across the road, the matriarch of the family died and it has sat empty for 20 years.
    Maybe they thought it would be too much trouble to rent.

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    1. You are likely right. You see places where people used to live and I kind of wonder what the back story is. A lot of people left smaller communities to move to bigger ones, some farms got absorbed by other farms. I am always slightly curious as to what might have happened.

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