There's so much developed and abandoned property in the city where I grew up, and yet every time I go back, more subdivisions and commercial areas have sprung up out of farmland and forested areas. I assume it's because it's cheaper to do that than it would be to tear down the old, rotting ruins (and probably deal with some serious contamination on the site) of the empty factories, etc. So the sprawl just keeps growing. At least the woods where I played are in a floodplain between my old subdivision and another, so it's been left alone so far. Even by the time my youngest brother was a teen in the early 2000s, he was saying that the neighborhood kids weren't playing in the woods anymore. He went out there to smoke with some friends, and all our trails were overgrown and there were no forts to be seen.
There's so much developed and abandoned property in the city where I grew up, and yet every time I go back, more subdivisions and commercial areas have sprung up out of farmland and forested areas. I assume it's because it's cheaper to do that than it would be to tear down the old, rotting ruins (and probably deal with some serious contamination on the site) of the empty factories, etc. So the sprawl just keeps growing. At least the woods where I played are in a floodplain between my old subdivision and another, so it's been left alone so far. Even by the time my youngest brother was a teen in the early 2000s, he was saying that the neighborhood kids weren't playing in the woods anymore. He went out there to smoke with some friends, and all our trails were overgrown and there were no forts to be seen.