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According to that definition,
Detroit, Michigan--which has lost nearly two-thirds of its population since the 1950 census from the auto industry collapse and high suburbanization--could be a ghost town. I know my example is ridiculous but the
Ghost town definition is far too vague. Wouldn't you agree?
Mike Moresi (
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06:11, 20 December 2014 (UTC)reply
I spent a few weeks working in
Gary, Indiana in the mid-1980s. The population was about 40% of its 1950s peak. It sure felt like a ghost town with almost every house boarded up in the non-urban neighborhoods of the city. A key difference between that and a place like Antelope is that Gary's abandonment occurred recently enough that the piles of garbage were still decaying and stinking whereas in Antelope, it happened long enough ago that it smells clean and all the garbage is gone. Other primary metro areas in the
Rust Belt have had similar declines. That doesn't make them all ghost towns since most of their declines are in the 10 to 40% range. —
EncMstr (
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19:58, 20 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Redlinks removed
These were removed per some guideline I'm too lazy to look up, so I won't put them back, but I researched them in the past and they're all legit if anybody feels like restoring them with cites or even writing articles about them.
Valfontis (
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06:01, 27 May 2015 (UTC)reply