The Chernobyl explosion happened on 26th April, not the 16th. I was in Denmark at the time, and the cloud passed right over us. We protected ourselves with beer.
I can tell you straight away why those homes in Burj Al Babas didn't sell : they're too damn close to each other. If you're going to buy a luxury home, you don't want the view out of every single window to be another home identical to yours. You want space around it. Landscaped gardens perhaps. At least a decently tall hedge or fence around the plot. As it is, it looks awful.
@@linustw I don't expect rolling hills as the front or back gardens - but that doesn't change the fact that the houses are too damn close together. There should at least be enough garden that you can grow a hedge or build a fence without making it look like a hole in the ground. Besides, "only" 400k USD might be a phrase you can use for the middle of New York or London, but it's a lot of money almost anywhere else in the world.
@@nigeldepledge3790 400k usd is 500k cad right now and that'll get you a 40+ year old house that's going to need a lot of work or a small condo in Kelowna BC Canada
Sometimes developers baffle me. What were they thinking, when they built 500 little castles, all looking exactly alike, and they thought rich people would buy them? Rich people like to be unique, to stand out from the crowd, to be envied by others...not live and look exactly like everyone else.
Developers should be made to demolish it and restore the land to what it was before building took place. There'd be far fewer development scams if they had to bear the cost 9f failed projects..
Exactly!!! People pay for status, which means being different, having something others don't, they pay to have a unique experience. What makes people like places is that they are aesthetically beautiful and special. Sometimes developers have absolutely zero understanding of human psychology
The city in Cyprus is pronounced FAM A GUSTA. Turkish soldiers are'nt allowed in as it's disputed between the Cypriots and Turks. When i was based in Cyprus ( British Army), it was patrolled by the Irish GARDA as part of the UN.
I was a CPL in 2 Para flown out during the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus. I ended up having the unenviable task of leading Squads of pioneer guys into Famagusta searching for military families in the dormitory areas. It was probably the worst assignment I've ever had in my life and not something I'll ever forget. Most people had evacuated but why so many left pets in apartments with no food or drink I'll never understand.
@@mickfunny4185 I believe there's plans to reopen it Mick. I was there on a UN tour in the late '80's and I think they'd need to tear the whole place down and rebuild. The beaches are fabulous
People were told to leave with no notice out of fear of violence due to turkey and you have the nerve to criticize desperate people who had no choice but do desperate things thanks to turkey🙄🙄🙄 ridiculous. No one wants to leave their pets behind it was out of desperation not something anyone wanted to do.
@@katiaaskildt7830 it wasn't that they left their pets behind, it was that they left their pets locked up in houses and apartments, thereby leaving them no choice but an agonising death.
1- Chernobyl reactor #4 blew up on April 26, 1986, not April 16. 2- It's not "the residents didn't realize the danger", it's "the Soviet gov't told them everything was fine". Until they suddenly evacuated everyone with only 3 hrs. notice. 3- It's not "pristine", the place looks like a goddamn Fallout game these days. Do y'all do ANY research?
When people were allowed to go back 33 years later their apartments were completely empty. The greedy no-goods went into every vacant home and 'checked to see if they left the stove on' Then took everything they owned. I thought that was very strange.. left the buildings but took the furnishings from it. wow and obvious theft
Hi andy b.i have been quite close to chernobyl.within 3 miles.i have tons of pics and videos.if you ever want to go .theres alot of red tape .and security
If I lived in the area of a town like that I’d definitely be moving into an abandoned town and make it home all alone. My own city or town with no people is like heaven
Who would clean your water or provide the power you need who would protect u if you became Ill. Sometimes I want to be alone but eventually I miss talking to others hearing them lauth and cry. Surely living in isolation is something people do but not me I'm happy escaping now and then that's why I brought v r goggles
2:18 "More than 500 homes all look the same." And that's WHY it failed, folks with THAT KIND of money aren't interested in cookie-cutter houses, no matter how nice. Also, WHERE'S THE LAND to go with the houses? Plots far too small for THAT kind of money.
i saw another video where there's a closer look at the buildings - what a joke!! in places the castles (!!) don't look like proper buildings - more like not very well made film set buildings. utter trash.
@@raymondo162 Most of them look like that because they haven't been completed. They were constructed from pre-fabricated concrete slabs like so many modern European buildings. After that shell is erected, the building's roofs are added, the windows, and the plastering outside and inside. But you are absolutely right, to call such a building a "castle" is a joke.
You are absolutely right. If I pay half a million I don't want my neighbours to be able to watch me undressing from their windows. Besides, as far as I know, the place is in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by hills in the dry and dusty country... I certainly wouldn't want to go there
Last time I checked, there were around 80K residents in TianDuCheng. And this was more than two years ago. Besides, you were not showing any pictures that are really about TianDuCheng other than the fake Eiffel.
fantastic video. well-written narration and thanks for not speaking in a melodramatic, faux-spooky way like a bunch of those other 'abandoned cities' youtube videos do.
"The people did not realise the seriousness of the situation" -- they weren't told. The USSR was a dictatorship and information was controlled, and the government covered it up until they could no longer do so. Similarly, they had no choice about moving out.
Here in the UK we have the Roman town of Vindolanda near Hadrian's wall. No buildings left, unfortunately, as the locals carried off all the stone and other stuff over the centuries to build farms and houses. Well worth a visit, though, if you're passing through !
Uhh…where is Hashima Island? I’m talking about Battleship Island, off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan? That place is literally the poster for abandoned cities - literally! It’s used in so many different films and TV shows for post-apocalyptic or deserted cities.
They are quite literally the same place. Hashima "Battleship" Island. Of course, during WWII there was a concrete fort defending a port that was shaped like a battleship and was armed with several main gun turrets of a battleship.
I know they’re the same place. I was using the more common term most of the west has heard of it as to try and clear the misunderstanding In case they were confusing it with somewhere like Ikeshima Island. Probably should have made that more clear, sorry.
these were all built as "planned cities", which oftentimes fail, as opposed to cities that evolved from a small hamlet to a burgeoning town to a grandiose city over a long period of time.
The use of abandoned is appropriate, it was abandoned by the investors, the construction companies and the state. Just not by people who once lived there, which would be a very narrow definition indeed.
Check out Eagle Lake California. Mining town of about 4000 that was abandoned in 1983 when the mine closed. The town still stands with just a couple of security guards watching over it.
In the 1950,s my dad was in the army and we lived in Cyprus for 5 years. 2 and a half years in Famagusta and the same in Larnaca.In Farmagusta we lived right by the beach where all the main hotels were located. Cyprus is a lovely place and we loved living there.
How can you say Tianducheng is in the rural countryside, it is literally a few km away from the city center of Hangzhou that has a population of 10M+. If you call that a ghost town, I think every town in the world (i.e. < 10,000 ppl) a ghost town LOL
A very good video. A correction: PLEASE, Georgia DOES NOT HAVE tropical climate. The plants growing there are typical of the temperate, continental climate near the Caucasus.
It is also a lovely place that many people are moving to. Good government. Safe to live. Low cost of living. And some lovely, welcoming cities. Lovely weather too. Very false view of Georgia because of one town. That's sad. It is mostly Christian and with a stable economy for decades.
@@janegoodwin1823 Most of the BAD about Georgia has been all about location - right in the way for many ambitious neighbors - per what I know of the area.
@@kulturfreund6631 I think this word was created by someone who's not a native German speaker, might be derived from Wanderlust which actually exist. see www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/kunst-der-mensch-und-die-ruinen.1013.de.html?dram:article_id=279077
Hi zeptic.i agree.ive been to 3 abandoned areas.2 of which were like ghost towns.1 in nevada.when you walk through u can almost hear voices .the eyes also play tricks
About the number one abandon city, TIANDUCHENG, I just checked it. The apartment is sold at U$200/sq.ft on average. It is crowded with subway service (four stations) to Hangzhou city where the internet giant company ALIBABA is located. This video is supposed to informational. But, it is so far away from reality.
That city in Turkey is one of the strangest things I have ever seen. Someone built 500 little castles without determining whether anyone found them appealing or not?
The video compares them to the Disney, but, having been to Istanbul, they very much resemble the gate house leading to the inner courtyards of Topkapi Palace, the home of the Ottoman Sultans during the heyday of the empire. It's an odd look, but I can see why a Turkish developer would see it as prestigious
There will be more cities like this in the future. Cities full of millions of industrial workers is something from the last century. We shop online for goods made by robots.
Now the robots just need to leave us humans alone in peace. Seeing that space seems more appealing to the billionaires, they should leave with their bots, better outcome for those of us who treasure our humaness
Georgia? An unrecognised country? Er… what are you talking about? Also, you might want to not refer to a city abandoned due to a nuclear disaster, killing countless people and harming many more, as an “honourable mention”.
@Pete I wasn't commenting on the "ethnic tensions" or attempting to give a complete historical account. I was merely commenting on the "unrecognized country" point raised by Conor. Can you see the difference now?
Most of the Chinese "Ghost Cities" have been filled up. As of 2017 the population of Tianducheng is now about 30,000. Your statistics for that city are from 2013.
None of the examples in the video are good! Three out of five are just failed projects. There are actual abandoned cities like Babylon that were once capitals of great empires bustling with people. Even if we only count recently abandoned cities, there are far better examples all over the world than the ones chosen. The Taiwan project isn't even a city!
If you look up Indigo Traveler - Nick, He just posted a video series about Chernobyl. He interviewed the single woman who lives in the town, still to this day with her dog. She is visited by a couple of people who being her food, bread and other items. She survived the tragedy. And lives to tell the tale to foreigners who visit the little town inside the exclusion zone.
Why are they just abandoned and the things inside not taken? I always wonder about that. In old mining towns in the US, you find old shacks like that, like everyone just vanished...
@@bigmac69yall You are right of course, I was making a comment on what I noticed in the home, since some of the items were museum worthy, and I am still surprised that no one carted off the practically civil war era furniture, which is extremely valuable and sought after! We have a couple of family pieces, and it is very unusual to see them laying around! I do not think "everyone" is a thief. Your comment is a huge over reaction to a reasonable observation. I feel you may just be in a bad mood and want to take it out on someone. If that is the case, I hope your day goes well and you have a great day and feel better. Everyone gets crabby now and then.
@@RErnie-gv1hv No, I think I've been there before, but I grew going with my parents all over California, so a lot of it is blurred since it's been years and years. I did go hiking in Joshua Tree several times and we hiked out to abandoned mines which were supposed to be haunted, and they were really creepy, also most of the little towns in the Sierras have a lit of abandoned places, well, they used to, now the land is so unbelievably valuable that everything there is different. The house I grew up in, in Palo Alto, was worth about 5,000 dollars when my parents bought it. I grew up there in the 60s and 70s, moving out just before the big tech explosion (most of my school mates became millionaires), a few years ago I saw the house up for sale f o.j r 8 million. Someone bought it and tore it down....
@@madsam0320 Giant cities that remained unoccupied for years have moved beyond the stage of what could be called investments. They are the opposite of investments.
@@StamfordBridge there’re no big city that remains unoccupied in China. The example above is just a large housing complex near Shanghai. Some of the buildings may be shoddy but a leasehold there worth a lot of money. Still a good investment for the future.
you just talked about fail projects, not cities(only Chernobyl could be called a city). Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organizations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution.
In at number one: evidence you didn't do enough research. Tianducheng can no longer be considered a ghost town: current population is around 30,000; it is actually built on the edge of Hangzhou (a city of around 10 million people) and it is connected to the Hangzhou Metro by relatively good bus links, indeed there are plans to link the Metro directly to the suburb very soon.
We should be a bit clear - The Turkish name is Varosha, the Greek name is Maraş. I have been to Famagusta in Northern Cyprus and looked in through the fences. It is eerie. Nice beach!
Before writing off Detroit, please identify all its attributes, because it may be one of the survivor cities after larger urban areas are inundated by oceans or too hot for us.
@@TheSuperhoden all I know is it was built to make North Korea look better than what it was. Fake people inside the buildings and people scheduled to roam the city if I’m not mistaken.
@@TheSuperhoden you haven’t been to North Korea and all information you have comes from enemy countries to N.K., do you still believe that you know anything of value? Yes I have been there. I have also been to N.K. Territory more than 20 times. Don’t embarrassed yourselves with commenting on things you know nothing about. OK! Stick to comments on makeup and clothing. Yes I have also been to Pripyat….
Sanzhi was in no way a city. It was some houses on a strip of land by the sea ( a lot about 350 x 120m). And the area isn't abandoned; it's along the main highway running across the north of Taiwan in New Taipei City. It's rural but it's by no means empty. There are thousands of people living and working .there. Source: I lived in Taipei.
Am I supposed to list all the at-risk cities in the order of their timing? BTW it’s not going to happen all at once. First frequent floods. Possibly waterborne diseases. Those who can afford to move out will. Property values plummet. More water. And so on
@@AkashicAkemi If it isn't going to happen rapidly then coastal cities have plenty time to put the infrastructure in place to mitigate the effect of incredibly slow rising seas don't they?
These would be great places for the UN HQ & a bunch of other NGOs. they could all be in close proximity to each other & solve the world's problems forever.
The "Abandoned Cities" reminds me of where I was born but no longer live. Flint, Michigan had a population of 200,000 in 1960 and now has a population of 96,559.
$400k for a house? try to find one in Ontario, Canada. They keep building those as I call " Chicken Coops " North of Toronto, and they are selling for over a million CAD. Your grand kids will be paying off your mortgage.
Hi jack.i live in ont.canada.i just bought a house in this little town.north of toronto.the couple i bought it from were quite old.but the house is in fabulous shape.i paid 194.000.not kidding.i got a steal
A bunch of romantic cosplayers, D&D and Lord Of The Rings fans and adventuresome gothic types really need to move into that castle city and just take it over.
EXXXaaactly... I don't understand. There is plenty of space around Europe for all those immigrants from the south.! Send them there.!! I'm sure, they would be so happy...
am I the only one who sees that the bonus city includes the one at MW4 "All Ghillied Up" misson( were you only use a sniper, throughout the whole mission)
2/3 rds of Detroit is abandoned or razed. According to the Detroit Freepress it once had a population of 2.1 million in 1948 and 2.2 million if its enclaves of Highland Park and Hamtramck were included. Now only has a population less than 700,000. That means it has enough abandoned or empty property to fill up present day Philadelphia.
Hi mr smith.i have tons of pics and video of chernobyl.ive been within. 3 col.of it.but you have to get special permission to go.and they send at least 5 guards with you.
It does. And many are. The city is gradually growing which is why there wasn't film included in this video. It's also connected to China's high speed rail network.
Surely those castle-esque houses in Turkey could be used to house homeless people and refugees rather than stand empty! As the houses were fully equipped with water and sewage connections and had electricity, they can provide the essential accommodation required for homeless people and refugees and have advisors and support staff housed there too! To ignore such an asset which may only require cleaning and inspections and perhaps some maintenance to bring them into serviceable condition would be ludicrous! There can't be many places in which brand new houses lie empty in their hundreds, available for anyone that requires accommodation!
The turkish town ... with crowded castles ... is ... by far ... my favourite. 🥳 And I very much want to see ... the face of the architect who designed this town ... and ... of course ... the faces of the investors. Because they must be soo funny persons ... to actually imagine that castles can be crowded. 😃
In 1960, Detroit Michigan had the highest per-capita income of any American city. Detroit was the 5th largest city in the US; now its fallen to the 24th. Why did this happen?
In the honorable mention part you gave the incorrect date for the Chernobyl disaster. It was the 26th of April 1986. I remember that very distinctly because it was my 16th birthday. No disrespect intended.
The Chernobyl explosion happened on 26th April, not the 16th. I was in Denmark at the time, and the cloud passed right over us. We protected ourselves with beer.
Being Danish, all I can say is, yep, that's sounds just about right. Compliment accepted :-)
Denmark is the country where the woman filmed herself sexually abusing her baby daughter while still in the hospital
@@violenceisfun991 What does that have to do with anything?
@@emil.soderholm its the first thing i think of whenever i hear Denmark 😷😷
Hmmm... Are you sure it was the only day in history when the Danes protected themselves with beer?
I can tell you straight away why those homes in Burj Al Babas didn't sell : they're too damn close to each other. If you're going to buy a luxury home, you don't want the view out of every single window to be another home identical to yours. You want space around it. Landscaped gardens perhaps. At least a decently tall hedge or fence around the plot.
As it is, it looks awful.
idea, lets take some homeless and let them live there. looks cool but youre right, if i had millions thats not where im going to live.
They were only usd400k per unit.
You dun expect rolling hill as front and back yard.
@@linustw I don't expect rolling hills as the front or back gardens - but that doesn't change the fact that the houses are too damn close together. There should at least be enough garden that you can grow a hedge or build a fence without making it look like a hole in the ground.
Besides, "only" 400k USD might be a phrase you can use for the middle of New York or London, but it's a lot of money almost anywhere else in the world.
It looks like a Villa Estate in China. They should market this place to Chinese, they'd love it.
@@nigeldepledge3790 400k usd is 500k cad right now and that'll get you a 40+ year old house that's going to need a lot of work or a small condo in Kelowna BC Canada
Sometimes developers baffle me. What were they thinking, when they built 500 little castles, all looking exactly alike, and they thought rich people would buy them? Rich people like to be unique, to stand out from the crowd, to be envied by others...not live and look exactly like everyone else.
Developers should be made to demolish it and restore the land to what it was before building took place. There'd be far fewer development scams if they had to bear the cost 9f failed projects..
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Exactly!!! People pay for status, which means being different, having something others don't, they pay to have a unique experience. What makes people like places is that they are aesthetically beautiful and special. Sometimes developers have absolutely zero understanding of human psychology
Most developers build in phases, so it would have been more prudent to build a few to start, then build the rest on demand.
The city in Cyprus is pronounced FAM A GUSTA. Turkish soldiers are'nt allowed in as it's disputed between the Cypriots and Turks. When i was based in Cyprus ( British Army), it was patrolled by the Irish GARDA as part of the UN.
Spot on it was 1998 i left Cyprus in 1999
@M Grant I'm not too sure but it was probably in the early 70s
I was a CPL in 2 Para flown out during the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus. I ended up having the unenviable task of leading Squads of pioneer guys into Famagusta searching for military families in the dormitory areas. It was probably the worst assignment I've ever had in my life and not something I'll ever forget. Most people had evacuated but why so many left pets in apartments with no food or drink I'll never understand.
@Jim Frodsham had no idea it was a ghost city until just now
@@mickfunny4185 I believe there's plans to reopen it Mick. I was there on a UN tour in the late '80's and I think they'd need to tear the whole place down and rebuild. The beaches are fabulous
So sorry to hear about the Pets , they should have let them free at least , I guess it was a terrible time for all the residents
People were told to leave with no notice out of fear of violence due to turkey and you have the nerve to criticize desperate people who had no choice but do desperate things thanks to turkey🙄🙄🙄 ridiculous. No one wants to leave their pets behind it was out of desperation not something anyone wanted to do.
@@katiaaskildt7830 it wasn't that they left their pets behind, it was that they left their pets locked up in houses and apartments, thereby leaving them no choice but an agonising death.
You could be more specific about Cyprus ...the country was invaded by the Turks in 1974 and not divided
My thoughts exactly. It wasnt "divided" - it was occupied.
And more specific about Georgia too, it's all about Russia.
And why was it invaded? That’s important too if you are looking for accuracy!
After the invasion Cyprus was divided
Duh
@@aydoganrm3295 the invasion was illegal as accepted by the UN
1- Chernobyl reactor #4 blew up on April 26, 1986, not April 16.
2- It's not "the residents didn't realize the danger", it's "the Soviet gov't told them everything was fine". Until they suddenly evacuated everyone with only 3 hrs. notice.
3- It's not "pristine", the place looks like a goddamn Fallout game these days.
Do y'all do ANY research?
When people were allowed to go back 33 years later their apartments were completely empty.
The greedy no-goods went into every vacant home and 'checked to see if they left the stove on'
Then took everything they owned.
I thought that was very strange.. left the buildings but took the furnishings from it. wow and obvious theft
Obviously not lol
Harsh but fair.
Hi andy b.i have been quite close to chernobyl.within 3 miles.i have tons of pics and videos.if you ever want to go .theres alot of red tape .and security
If I lived in the area of a town like that I’d definitely be moving into an abandoned town and make it home all alone. My own city or town with no people is like heaven
We have plenty of ghost towns in British Columbia.
Wouldn't you feel lonely?
@@mayloo2137no I’ve been conditioned for it. Now I think it’s where I belong.
Who would clean your water or provide the power you need who would protect u if you became Ill. Sometimes I want to be alone but eventually I miss talking to others hearing them lauth and cry. Surely living in isolation is something people do but not me I'm happy escaping now and then that's why I brought v r goggles
i'll give you at most a year, then you'll miss people.
I didn't know about afew of these, abandoned stuff is some of the coolest, most beautiful but also most terrifying places
I’m guessing u think a lot is one word also. Sad
I'd add 'haunting' to your list.
You could still rent these developments to the movie industry for some horror/psycho-films. Or to the military as a training facility.
Ive been to an abandoned theme park. In russia.sooooo creeepy. The swings would sway when there was no wind.and 3 times i heard a little girl laugh.
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"More than 500 homes all look the same."
And that's WHY it failed, folks with THAT KIND of money aren't interested in cookie-cutter houses, no matter how nice.
Also, WHERE'S THE LAND to go with the houses? Plots far too small for THAT kind of money.
i saw another video where there's a closer look at the buildings - what a joke!! in places the castles (!!) don't look like proper buildings - more like not very well made film set buildings. utter trash.
@Brice Fleckenstein
Exactly!
@@raymondo162 Most of them look like that because they haven't been completed. They were constructed from pre-fabricated concrete slabs like so many modern European buildings. After that shell is erected, the building's roofs are added, the windows, and the plastering outside and inside. But you are absolutely right, to call such a building a "castle" is a joke.
You are absolutely right. If I pay half a million I don't want my neighbours to be able to watch me undressing from their windows. Besides, as far as I know, the place is in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by hills in the dry and dusty country... I certainly wouldn't want to go there
@@mquietsch6736 if you were to live in England, that's exactly what you'd get.
Last time I checked, there were around 80K residents in TianDuCheng. And this was more than two years ago. Besides, you were not showing any pictures that are really about TianDuCheng other than the fake Eiffel.
Number 2, the UFO apartments were torn down. Which means it’s not abandoned. It doesn’t exist.
So true. He also didn’t mention Cornalheira.
Huh
@@carolannplastina9156 Huh
The apartments are gone, but the other buildings in the area are still there, just not occupied.
fantastic video. well-written narration and thanks for not speaking in a melodramatic, faux-spooky way like a bunch of those other 'abandoned cities' youtube videos do.
"The people did not realise the seriousness of the situation" -- they weren't told. The USSR was a dictatorship and information was controlled, and the government covered it up until they could no longer do so. Similarly, they had no choice about moving out.
The Soviet regime only owned up after the radioactive cloud was detected as it moved west across Europe.
This is well-documented. When they did move out, the government told them it would only be for a few days. It's been 35 years.
The part about having no choice but to move out was true whether or not the government said they should. Either they moved or they died.
Here in the UK we have the Roman town of Vindolanda near Hadrian's wall. No buildings left, unfortunately, as the locals carried off all the stone and other stuff over the centuries to build farms and houses. Well worth a visit, though, if you're passing through !
‘Town’, never was a town.
Ooo thx
Wasn't a town , it was a barracks .
Uhh…where is Hashima Island? I’m talking about Battleship Island, off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan?
That place is literally the poster for abandoned cities - literally! It’s used in so many different films and TV shows for post-apocalyptic or deserted cities.
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Civilians and normal public are prohibited from visiting it so it doesn't make any sense anyway
Civilians haven’t been banned from visiting the island since 2009. In fact you can catch a ferry tour there from Nagasaki port for about $50.
They are quite literally the same place. Hashima "Battleship" Island. Of course, during WWII there was a concrete fort defending a port that was shaped like a battleship and was armed with several main gun turrets of a battleship.
I know they’re the same place. I was using the more common term most of the west has heard of it as to try and clear the misunderstanding In case they were confusing it with somewhere like Ikeshima Island.
Probably should have made that more clear, sorry.
these were all built as "planned cities", which oftentimes fail, as opposed to cities that evolved from a small hamlet to a burgeoning town to a grandiose city over a long period of time.
i wouldn't call the castle one abandoned. it was never inhabited to begin with.
It looks horrendous. Location, town planning, everything.
Cities need population to be considered a city.
Whose that idiot who thought gulf investors would actually buy a place literally no person lives in 😂😂💔
The use of abandoned is appropriate, it was abandoned by the investors, the construction companies and the state. Just not by people who once lived there, which would be a very narrow definition indeed.
"Fifty thousand people used to live here. Now, it's a ghost town."
I wonder where you got that from?
@@mgrant011 If you're really asking, Call of Duty Modern Warfare.
Honorable Mentions: All Cities I made in Cities Skyline
Very powerful video. Tastefully done.
Check out Eagle Lake California. Mining town of about 4000 that was abandoned in 1983 when the mine closed. The town still stands with just a couple of security guards watching over it.
In the 1950,s my dad was in the army and we lived in Cyprus for 5 years. 2 and a half years in Famagusta and the same in Larnaca.In Farmagusta we lived right by the beach where all the main hotels were located. Cyprus is a lovely place and we loved living there.
Hi tony. Sounds like you moved alot.but you lived in some beautiful places.you were lucky to be able to travel to such exotic places.
How can you say Tianducheng is in the rural countryside, it is literally a few km away from the city center of Hangzhou that has a population of 10M+. If you call that a ghost town, I think every town in the world (i.e. < 10,000 ppl) a ghost town LOL
A very good video. A correction: PLEASE, Georgia DOES NOT HAVE tropical climate. The plants growing there are typical of the temperate, continental climate near the Caucasus.
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The country of Georgia long predates the Soviet Union, and is older than Russia itself.
It HAS been conquered a few times though.
It is also a lovely place that many people are moving to. Good government. Safe to live. Low cost of living. And some lovely, welcoming cities. Lovely weather too.
Very false view of Georgia because of one town. That's sad. It is mostly Christian and with a stable economy for decades.
Si si...
@@janegoodwin1823 Most of the BAD about Georgia has been all about location - right in the way for many ambitious neighbors - per what I know of the area.
German has a word, "Ruinenlust", which means "to take pleasure in looking at ruins". It sure applies here.
I'm Geman and I haven't read or heard this word before.
Keep admitting your lack of knowledge of your own language.
@@-Jakob- i am Austrian, and we dont use it here either. Maybe the Swiss?
@@SirFranzelot I've been living in Switzerland for more than 20 years - nope ;)
@@kulturfreund6631 I think this word was created by someone who's not a native German speaker, might be derived from Wanderlust which actually exist. see www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/kunst-der-mensch-und-die-ruinen.1013.de.html?dram:article_id=279077
the abandoned city’s reminds me of the show life without people
Hi zeptic.i agree.ive been to 3 abandoned areas.2 of which were like ghost towns.1 in nevada.when you walk through u can almost hear voices .the eyes also play tricks
About the number one abandon city, TIANDUCHENG, I just checked it. The apartment is sold at U$200/sq.ft on average. It is crowded with subway service (four stations) to Hangzhou city where the internet giant company ALIBABA is located. This video is supposed to informational. But, it is so far away from reality.
Yup--satellite pics show plenty of cars on the street...
😂
There is saddness in all these places.
That city in Turkey is one of the strangest things I have ever seen. Someone built 500 little castles without determining whether anyone found them appealing or not?
The video compares them to the Disney, but, having been to Istanbul, they very much resemble the gate house leading to the inner courtyards of Topkapi Palace, the home of the Ottoman Sultans during the heyday of the empire. It's an odd look, but I can see why a Turkish developer would see it as prestigious
Built by christians
This is what the world looks like when designed by psychopaths.
It sounds so funny.500 little castles.what would posess a person to build these.so odd
There will be more cities like this in the future. Cities full of millions of industrial workers is something from the last century. We shop online for goods made by robots.
Now the robots just need to leave us humans alone in peace.
Seeing that space seems more appealing to the billionaires, they should leave with their bots, better outcome for those of us who treasure our humaness
@@Ayla_3.3 Yeah, to those people 'humans' are just a resource, a commodity. Soulless entities who toil for the well being of their masters.
5:50 Those houses have nothing to do with original Futuro house. Futuro has round windows and rounder shape. These houses are mostly cylinder shaped.
The country of Georgia is so beautiful.
Hi cindy .i agree feorgia is beautiful.i have flown there many times for work.the people and food r great
Georgia? An unrecognised country? Er… what are you talking about?
Also, you might want to not refer to a city abandoned due to a nuclear disaster, killing countless people and harming many more, as an “honourable mention”.
Abkhazia is unrecognised by most of the world. The city is in that territory/area/country.
@Pete I wasn't commenting on the "ethnic tensions" or attempting to give a complete historical account. I was merely commenting on the "unrecognized country" point raised by Conor. Can you see the difference now?
Most of the Chinese "Ghost Cities" have been filled up. As of 2017 the population of Tianducheng is now about 30,000. Your statistics for that city are from 2013.
None of the examples in the video are good! Three out of five are just failed projects. There are actual abandoned cities like Babylon that were once capitals of great empires bustling with people. Even if we only count recently abandoned cities, there are far better examples all over the world than the ones chosen. The Taiwan project isn't even a city!
If you look up Indigo Traveler - Nick, He just posted a video series about Chernobyl. He interviewed the single woman who lives in the town, still to this day with her dog. She is visited by a couple of people who being her food, bread and other items. She survived the tragedy. And lives to tell the tale to foreigners who visit the little town inside the exclusion zone.
Was there any explanation as to how she avoids the radiation poisoning?
Or, does she?
@@RErnie-gv1hv It wasn't mentioned. But you can see the episode on the Indigo Traveler's YT Channel. It's still up.
In the Highlands of Scotland there are abandoned crofters houses, that are time capsules of when they left them, in the late 20th century.
Why are they just abandoned and the things inside not taken? I always wonder about that. In old mining towns in the US, you find old shacks like that, like everyone just vanished...
@@christineparis5607 Because some people have respect for others and not everyone is a thief.
@@bigmac69yall
You are right of course, I was making a comment on what I noticed in the home, since some of the items were museum worthy, and I am still surprised that no one carted off the practically civil war era furniture, which is extremely valuable and sought after! We have a couple of family pieces, and it is very unusual to see them laying around! I do not think "everyone" is a thief. Your comment is a huge over reaction to a reasonable observation. I feel you may just be in a bad mood and want to take it out on someone. If that is the case, I hope your day goes well and you have a great day and feel better. Everyone gets crabby now and then.
@@christineparis5607 Are you referring to the California ghost town of, "Bodie"?
@@RErnie-gv1hv
No, I think I've been there before, but I grew going with my parents all over California, so a lot of it is blurred since it's been years and years. I did go hiking in Joshua Tree several times and we hiked out to abandoned mines which were supposed to be haunted, and they were really creepy, also most of the little towns in the Sierras have a lit of abandoned places, well, they used to, now the land is so unbelievably valuable that everything there is different. The house I grew up in, in Palo Alto, was worth about 5,000 dollars when my parents bought it. I grew up there in the 60s and 70s, moving out just before the big tech explosion (most of my school mates became millionaires), a few years ago I saw the house up for sale f o.j r 8 million. Someone bought it and tore it down....
You could do a top ten abandoned cities list with just China alone.
Most of china ready built cities are not abandoned.
@@linustw China has more built but empty cities than any other country on Earth.
They are not abandoned, most are owned as investments.
@@madsam0320 Giant cities that remained unoccupied for years have moved beyond the stage of what could be called investments. They are the opposite of investments.
@@StamfordBridge there’re no big city that remains unoccupied in China. The example above is just a large housing complex near Shanghai. Some of the buildings may be shoddy but a leasehold there worth a lot of money. Still a good investment for the future.
"50,000 people used to live here... Now its a ghost town"
Happens to many one-industry towns or cities. Eg. Detroit, former mining towns ....
@@mayloo2137 DETROIT IS ON THE UP READ ABOUT IT
@@MOSSFEEN how's the auto industry doing? Just curious, no offense meant.
@@mayloo2137 Detroit has started to diversify.
@@a.mcg.4229 I'm in Calgary Canada. The oil industry here is waning. Diversity into tech. Is Detroit going a similar direction?
I think the bonus should be the first actually. Or you should make a video about that city alone.
There's an episode on Dark Tourist visiting one of the abandoned radio active cities, very eerie
you just talked about fail projects, not cities(only Chernobyl could be called a city). Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organizations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution.
In at number one: evidence you didn't do enough research. Tianducheng can no longer be considered a ghost town: current population is around 30,000; it is actually built on the edge of Hangzhou (a city of around 10 million people) and it is connected to the Hangzhou Metro by relatively good bus links, indeed there are plans to link the Metro directly to the suburb very soon.
Hasimoto island (battleship island) would have been a good addition
Nice!
Many new housing estates in the UK are built where there is no public transport and there are never any local facilities built in them.
Nonsense.
We should be a bit clear - The Turkish name is Varosha, the Greek name is Maraş. I have been to Famagusta in Northern Cyprus and looked in through the fences. It is eerie. Nice beach!
THAT LAST ONE COULD BE A NICE TRAINING AREA FOR THERE MILATERY.
I imagine the Chinese have practiced invading Paris there
Without built in wine cellar? - Not authentic enough.
Is there any abandoned city's/towns in Australia. Would love to know. I love my Australia, warts and all.
Give it time because there are many that should be condemned ASAP.
Have you heard of Wittenoom? That’s one of them in Australia, although it’s in the Pilbara area
Big bell in WA is an abandoned mining town. Apparently the pub once held the record for the longest bar in the world.
ANNE, check Google for abandoned cities & towns in your area.
8:23 "By 2017, its population had grown to 30,000 and the development was expanded several times." -- Wiki
Looking forward, we may soon add Las Vegas and L.A. to the list.
Vegas for sure
Portland and Seattle too
Why?
Please take San Francisco! That place is the butthole of the United States
Before writing off Detroit, please identify all its attributes, because it may be one of the survivor cities after larger urban areas are inundated by oceans or too hot for us.
I would say you missed Peace Village in North Korea, but it’s not like we fully know the ins and outs of that place.
That's not abandoned, just build for show, its also probably one of north Korea's best maintained cities
@@TheSuperhoden does anyone live there? Serious question. I know very little about it.
@@TheSuperhoden all I know is it was built to make North Korea look better than what it was. Fake people inside the buildings and people scheduled to roam the city if I’m not mistaken.
@@danielschmaderer It is called the propaganda village for a reason.
@@TheSuperhoden you haven’t been to North Korea and all information you have comes from enemy countries to N.K., do you still believe that you know anything of value? Yes I have been there. I have also been to N.K. Territory more than 20 times. Don’t embarrassed yourselves with commenting on things you know nothing about. OK! Stick to comments on makeup and clothing.
Yes I have also been to Pripyat….
My heart is abandoned village as well...
Sanzhi was in no way a city. It was some houses on a strip of land by the sea ( a lot about 350 x 120m). And the area isn't abandoned; it's along the main highway running across the north of Taiwan in New Taipei City. It's rural but it's by no means empty. There are thousands of people living and working .there.
Source: I lived in Taipei.
Pretty soon many big cities will join the rank, such as Venice, NYC (especially Manhattan), and various other coastal cities.
What are you on about? NY is not remotely at risk from sea level rise at current or projected rates.
@@sandersson2813 it just takes some years of global warming. Nah global warming is shit, we will still consume natural resources as if we own earth.
@@Aloewells Stop acting like consuming resources is something you disapprove of.
You wouldn't last 5 minutes without oil and gas
Am I supposed to list all the at-risk cities in the order of their timing?
BTW it’s not going to happen all at once. First frequent floods. Possibly waterborne diseases. Those who can afford to move out will. Property values plummet. More water. And so on
@@AkashicAkemi If it isn't going to happen rapidly then coastal cities have plenty time to put the infrastructure in place to mitigate the effect of incredibly slow rising seas don't they?
Great film set for a futuristic dystopian movie.
Pripiyat and all the townies near Fukushima should be in honorable mentiond
This Turkish golf resort is the most ridiculous stuff I have ever seen (multiple times already).
These would be great places for the UN HQ & a bunch of other NGOs. they could all be in close proximity to each other & solve the world's problems forever.
LOL
Here in the United STATES..they have abandoned homes APARTMENTS..mansions....and we CAN'T even give them to our vets..or low rent..
They abandoned Detroit
Very sad!
The "Abandoned Cities" reminds me of where I was born but no longer live. Flint, Michigan had a population of 200,000 in 1960 and now has a population of 96,559.
Who would want to drink polluted water. Unfortunately Flint is now known as synonymous with polluted water
@@daniyalbbd5281 Correct Apik, I lived in Flint until 1972 then got out of town. We have our own well now 165 ft deep.
I never thought they would be talking about NYC.
They forgot to include Scunthorpe Town Centre!!!
lol
Some potential The Twilight Zone locations.
$400k for a house? try to find one in Ontario, Canada. They keep building those as I call " Chicken Coops " North of Toronto, and they are selling for over a million CAD. Your grand kids will be paying off your mortgage.
fascinating
In London, UK, a two bed flat is $3M. You're luckier.
@@tancreddehauteville764 Honestly, I don't know how much flats downtown Toronto go for, but it is probably not far off.
Hi jack.i live in ont.canada.i just bought a house in this little town.north of toronto.the couple i bought it from were quite old.but the house is in fabulous shape.i paid 194.000.not kidding.i got a steal
@@2405jacko hi jack.i have a friend who lives on the waterfront in toronto. She paid .almost.3 mill.for a 2 bedroom flat
A bunch of romantic cosplayers, D&D and Lord Of The Rings fans and adventuresome gothic types really need to move into that castle city and just take it over.
i'm pure lovin your thinkin
Especially since there’s no food, water, or any form of utilities or sanitation.
A version of Disney meets Zombie Apocalypse
Not sure they have tropical plants growing in Georgia.
On the southern islands.
yeah he should have said vegetation.
They have in Adjaria. Around Batumi
Well there is palm trees not sure about plants
The first one. Thousands of homeless people and all those houses standing empty and slowly turning to ruin
EXXXaaactly... I don't understand. There is plenty of space around Europe for all those immigrants from the south.! Send them there.!! I'm sure, they would be so happy...
Now I know where low budget zombie, horror movies are made
Like chernobyl diaries.very creepy place
7:13
It was April, 26th 1986. 1:23 a.m.
Surely Yubari, Japan should be on this list.
am I the only one who sees that the bonus city includes the one at MW4 "All Ghillied Up" misson( were you only use a sniper, throughout the whole mission)
2/3 rds of Detroit is abandoned or razed. According to the Detroit Freepress it once had a population of 2.1 million in 1948 and 2.2 million if its enclaves of Highland Park and Hamtramck were included. Now only has a population less than 700,000. That means it has enough abandoned or empty property to fill up present day Philadelphia.
Its also being rebuilt though
Burj Al babas looks like Barratts fuck up with David Wilson "luxury homes " next door
I'm here now exploring beautiful country
Good places to live if the world is in the middle of a pandemic 😉 ☮️
Hi freebird.thats what chernobyl is like.its very eerie but calming.
Now I'd really be interested where that thumbnail comes from. You sure this isn't a still from an American movie?
Are there any Abandoned Houses in Ogden
Where is Ogden?
Idk
In the U.S we have a large nearly abandon city the that's called Detroit.
Bruhhh nooo
@@MOSSFEEN 😢😥
You’re a clown
@@MegaJoe314 Ahhh, did I hurt your widdle feelings.😢
It’s 2021 and people are still trying to get views from Chernobyl. Wow this world has run out of ideas and originality.
Hi mr smith.i have tons of pics and video of chernobyl.ive been within. 3 col.of it.but you have to get special permission to go.and they send at least 5 guards with you.
Why China doesn't allow those poor villagers to live in the replica city??
Seems like you answered your own question there.
It does. And many are. The city is gradually growing which is why there wasn't film included in this video. It's also connected to China's high speed rail network.
The chernobyl explosion happend on the 26 th of april 1986
Pretty sure the chernobyl disaster was the 26th of April.
Surely those castle-esque houses in Turkey could be used to house homeless people and refugees rather than stand empty!
As the houses were fully equipped with water and sewage connections and had electricity, they can provide the essential accommodation required for homeless people and refugees and have advisors and support staff housed there too!
To ignore such an asset which may only require cleaning and inspections and perhaps some maintenance to bring them into serviceable condition would be ludicrous!
There can't be many places in which brand new houses lie empty in their hundreds, available for anyone that requires accommodation!
3:52 Not to be confused with the state of Georgia
Or the town of Georgia.
Or my niece Georgia...
@@Nitecrow314 I am afraid I don't know the gent.
Most of Detroit could make the list.
Hang on, Detroit. You may be one of the survivor cities when temperatures rise too high for human habitation elsewhere in the U.S.
Every archeological dig that isn't in an existing city is an abandoned city.
The first one, those homes can i settle in for free provided the basic amenities like food, water and sanitation.
The turkish town ... with crowded castles ... is ... by far ... my favourite. 🥳 And I very much want to see ... the face of the architect who designed this town ... and ... of course ... the faces of the investors. Because they must be soo funny persons ... to actually imagine that castles can be crowded. 😃
A copper stealing criminal’s dream
Add Melbourne to the list, destroyed by the Victorian labor party
Thank you
Damn, the research for this video was, uhm.... less then ideal...
Love the video👍subbed
If any City has been Abandoned twice then that City would fetch Employment
In 1960, Detroit Michigan had the highest per-capita income of any American city. Detroit was the 5th largest city in the US; now its fallen to the 24th. Why did this happen?
Smaller ones of these in Ireland paid for by the EU.
Even the hobbit house's are abandoned in NZ.
Japan, Fukushima, wait, oh, it wasn't abandoned even with the radiation.
In the honorable mention part you gave the incorrect date for the Chernobyl disaster. It was the 26th of April 1986. I remember that very distinctly because it was my 16th birthday. No disrespect intended.