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 cowtownclimber
    
Location: Fort Worth
Gender: Male
e^(i*Pi)+1=0
 |  | Grass is always greener syndrome
< on 1/4/2012 12:24 PM >
|  | | | Does anyone else feel like this? I know there is a good collection of cool spots in and around where I live, but when I see photos from people in other parts of the country/world I am blown away. All I can think of is, "Man why don't we have stuff that awesome to explore around here".
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Liska
Location: Western Massachusetts
Gender: Female
| | Re: Grass is always greener syndrome
<Reply # 1 on 1/4/2012 12:45 PM >
| | | | welcome to the club  I always used to feel that way- but then I learned it was because I wasn't looking close enough at other areas. So I've expanded my horizons a little and its working much better
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yokes
  
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
I aim to misbehave
| |  |  | Re: Grass is always greener syndrome
<Reply # 2 on 1/4/2012 12:47 PM >
| | | | I'd much rather live in a place with little to no abandoned shit, than to be surrounded by the most amazing ruins. I love traveling, so Urbex is another excuse to see other parts of the world.
"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel |
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CatAndTie
Location: Southeastern PA
Gender: Male
LifeInDecay. com
| | | Re: Grass is always greener syndrome
<Reply # 3 on 1/4/2012 12:57 PM >
| | | | The problem I have is that I normally will travel to further away places than explore the wonders right next door to me... it's how I missed the Byberry experience. I think I used to have the attitude of, "Oh, it's so close I can go there anytime I want. Pssh!"
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Andre Gide |
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Weirdlig
Gender: Female
| | Re: Grass is always greener syndrome
<Reply # 4 on 1/4/2012 1:27 PM >
| | | | I feel dissatisfaction with what I'm not seeing more than I feel satisfaction with what I am seeing.
http://www.flickr....irdlingphotography |
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SeikoLiz
Location: 21061
Gender: Male
The beast with those four dirty paws
| |  | | | Re: Grass is always greener syndrome
<Reply # 5 on 1/4/2012 6:29 PM >
| | | | It's only natural to become numb to that which you see with some frequency. Even if the sites out of area that you haven't seen before are effectively the same as those in your home town, the journey to them adds to their allure. The anticipation adds to the thrill. The journey is like a pilgrim's march, it's meant to be long and hard to give you time to think and dwell and mount excitement.
We didn't need a story. We didn't need a real world. We just had to keep walking. And we became the stories, we became the places. We were the lights, the deserts, the faraway worlds. We were you before you even existed. |
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Astro
   
Usually naked
Location: The Delta Quadrant
Gender: Male
Resistance is Futile
| | Re: Grass is always greener syndrome
<Reply # 6 on 1/4/2012 6:31 PM >
| | | | Posted by yokes
I'd much rather live in a place with little to no abandoned shit, than to be surrounded by the most amazing ruins. I love traveling, so Urbex is another excuse to see other parts of the world.
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+1
I love seeing the things around me and going "this is neat" and then traveling, meeting new people and going "OMG THIS PLACE IS AMAZING!!" It really means I can never grow bored of it.
[02:33:56] <Valkyre> Astro your whole life is ruled by the sentence ' life is better without clothes on'
[22:16:00] <DSomms> it was normal until astro got here
Astro: Patron Saint of Drains |
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Weirdlig
Gender: Female
| | Re: Grass is always greener syndrome
<Reply # 7 on 1/4/2012 8:25 PM >
| | | | Just had a bad case of this today. There's a massive potentially abandoned cathedral several towns over and a small blatantly abandoned church beside it. I was hoping the basements were connected, and not only weren't they--the damned place was stripped and almost everything in there was just new plywood. I kept thinking of the Transfigurations church...oh who I wouldn't kill to get to the Transfigurations church.
It might not be in my head though, NH is like the 'surprise dead end' state. Half of the abandonments are just crappy looking active sites and everything amazing outside is being fixed inside.
The grass is greener to all my borders.
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insulinguy
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Grass is always greener syndrome
<Reply # 8 on 1/4/2012 9:00 PM >
| | | | since we both live in fort worth, texASS i can assure you the grass is much MUCH greener pretty much everywhere else. ill make those long ass drives in texas to see locations and usually choose one of our neighboring states for a long weekend each year and always have a super good time. but the best way to smoke some of that greener grass is to go see it yourself. my trip to the northeast last summer (with the help of catandtie and many others in this community) changed my life in the most positive of ways and there is no doubt that i will return once a year for many years to come. there is some green grass in our fair burgh but the greenest grass lies elsewhere.
by the way - we should meet up sometime. always fun times when the dfw crew gets together!
pro-abortion, anti-christ |
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Kuroneko
Location: Tokyo
Gender: Male
| | Re: Grass is always greener syndrome
<Reply # 9 on 1/5/2012 12:28 AM >
| | | | Nope.
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\/adder
 
Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: Grass is always greener syndrome
<Reply # 10 on 1/5/2012 12:43 AM >
| | | | I've said before I want to move to Gary Indiana or that general area. Centrally located and a less than a day round trip from some of the most awesome places in the country.
If I can't find anything for a job, I can work at the "family business" (my grandfather, two uncles, and my dad for a short stretch) which has a major plant outside of Detroit, I'd try to transfer to....
I should also point out in Europe, most of the things we do that aren't even illegal, or are even less serious than in the USA.
[last edit 1/5/2012 12:52 AM by \/adder - edited 2 times]
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
escensi omnis... |
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Skye_Ann
Location: Kitchener, Ontario
Gender: Female
I seem to have Irritable Owl Syndrome...
| | | Re: Grass is always greener syndrome
<Reply # 11 on 1/5/2012 1:45 AM >
| | | | Try living in Canada... All our stuff is torn down quicker then I can explore... Not having a car sucks though... Oh well when I'm older perhaps.
My Blog; https://historyindecay.blogspot.com/ |
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SPARKY_481
Location: Indy
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Grass is always greener syndrome
<Reply # 12 on 1/5/2012 5:29 PM >
| | | | You took the words out of my mouth OP
You only LIVE once |
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lxk_
Location: AU
go in drains
| | Re: Grass is always greener syndrome
<Reply # 13 on 1/5/2012 11:46 PM >
| | | | No. Sure it looks good elsewhere, but there's nothing wrong with what's around.
Adapt.
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Louie
| | | Re: Grass is always greener syndrome
<Reply # 14 on 1/6/2012 1:49 AM >
| | | | Posted by yokes
I'd much rather live in a place with little to no abandoned shit, than to be surrounded by the most amazing ruins. I love traveling, so Urbex is another excuse to see other parts of the world.
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IF you have the time and money to travel. Most people don't.
I think I have the Grass is Always Green syndrome. On the east coast - always had something to explore. Now that I'm in the northwest, I thought there would be nothing worth seeing because "everything out there is new." Boy was I wrong! It's awesome!
Besides, exploring isn't all about "abandoned shit" and "amazing ruins." Go to your local library and get a copy of Access All Areas on inter-library loan. Abandonments... can be overrated
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Weirdlig
Gender: Female
| | Re: Grass is always greener syndrome
<Reply # 15 on 1/6/2012 2:30 AM >
| | | | One way I fight the syndrome is by urbexing everything in sight regardless of whether or not it seems even remotely interesting. At least half the time I'm extremely pleasantly surprised. The most normal looking houses can have bizarre trinkets or hints of a terrifying history, a warehouse might contain some outrageous and inventive graffiti, or 'that little shack' you drove by nine hundred times was actually the most outstanding laboratory around.
You never know how good you have it until you check under every stone.
[last edit 1/6/2012 2:30 AM by Weirdlig - edited 1 times]
http://www.flickr....irdlingphotography |
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yokes
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
I aim to misbehave
| | | | Re: Grass is always greener syndrome
<Reply # 16 on 1/6/2012 3:02 AM >
| | | | Posted by Louie
IF you have the time and money to travel. Most people don't.
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Most people don't have the money to travel in high comfort, yes. But I think most people have have the money (though, perhaps not the time), to travel by bus and stay in hostels or to camp. They might not have the initiative to do so, mind you.
"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel |
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Harvestman
Location: Somewhere in SORTA/TANK Territory!
Gender: Male
Everything about me has a poker face.
| | | Re: Grass is always greener syndrome
<Reply # 18 on 1/6/2012 2:43 PM >
| | | | Meh, I know there's still a ton of stuff in my own town that I haven't explored yet...and best of all, stuff is still being abandoned, given the state of the realty market nowadays.
Maybe I'll feel like this when I run out of stuff to explore. Whoever did that one temple thing in Turkey gave me this feeling, though.
Oh good, my slow clap processor made it into this thing.
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Samurai
 
Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | Re: Grass is always greener syndrome
<Reply # 19 on 1/6/2012 3:17 PM >
| | | | Posted by Skye_Ann
Try living in Canada... All our stuff is torn down quicker then I can explore... Not having a car sucks though... Oh well when I'm older perhaps.
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Vermont is notorious for this ^.
Aw hell, where I live, Republic Steel halted mining operations in 1972, but kept a superintendent presence over the mines, running pumps and all that to keep the mine on standby. In 1973, they shut the pumps off and said hasta la vista, baby to an area that really had no other industry to fall back on. By mid 1974, the town, who had inherited all the mine property, was already looking for contractors to LEVEL EVERYTHING. By 1975, any trace there was a mine was gone. When I was growing up in 1980's and 90's, there was some stuff left, but not near as much as had been demolished.
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