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Well in the end there is nothing. I watched Mangakino in New Zealand, a town built to service a dam nearby until those jobs were either finished or given to a c
by rangibaby 10y ago
Well in the end there is nothing. I watched Mangakino in New Zealand, a town built to service a dam nearby until those jobs were either finished or given to a computer, slowly deteriorate from a being regular town in the 1980s to something more dysfunctional in the late 90s, ending with the entire town being sold in a shady business deal. First the bank shut down, then the hospital, then the gas station...
There was a lot of petty crime committed by bored young people. My grandmother was punched in the face by someone prowling around her work at 6am in the morning. A cop was murdered, etc.
Apparently the town is doing better now as a tourist location for rich people; it has a beautiful lake that is heavily polluted by an upstream paper mill and dairy farming, but it was sad watching it slowly decay a little bit every day.