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Abandoned South Dakota Town on Sale for $250k

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Re: Abandoned South Dakota Town on Sale for $250k

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Post by sanoli »

icebraining wrote: post #6
jessaustin wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presumably there would be video? There is no explaining the tastes of Nebraskans. b^) I doubt the numbers would favor the felons, however. After a week or so the survivors will have hitchhiked to Sioux Falls.

Presumably there would be video? It seems so: "The South Dakota real estate agent said one Nebraska man said he want to buy the Swett ghost town and bring 2,000 Russian women and 600 convicted felons to live in the town. He wanted to build acrylic houses for the new residents to live in and set up cameras to run 24/7 and film the interactions, Syracuse.com reports."

again: what??

Re: Abandoned South Dakota Town on Sale for $250k

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Post by toyg »

sanoli wrote: post #11
icebraining wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presumably there would be video? It seems so: "The South Dakota real estate agent said one Nebraska man said he want to buy the Swett ghost town and bring 2,000 Russian women and 600 convicted felons to live in the town. He wanted to build acrylic houses for the new residents to live in and set up cameras to run 24/7 and film the interactions, Syracuse.com reports."

again: what??

Reality-TV at scale. It could work.

EDIT: even the characters make sense. People watch reality for sex and bust-ups, so get attractive women and angry men at ration of 3 to 1 and you're pretty much guaranteed lots of sex and catfights. Give this man a medal!

Re: Abandoned South Dakota Town on Sale for $250k

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Post by empthought »

netcan wrote: post #8

On one hand, this is a little land with a few building in unattractive location/condition. Not so queer. On the other… We are at a point in time when the wealthy are extremely wealthy. The billionaire club is substantial but even below that, personal wealth in the tens or hundreds of millions exists. What do people want to do with that wealth? It's more than can really be spent on comfort, entertainment, sex and such…

"Where are the wealthy who would like to try a bold experiment in communalism, anarchism, feminism or whatnot?"

Flippant answer is that the two groups—"the wealthy," and people interested in that sort of thing—have almost no overlap.

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Post by elthran »

icebraining wrote: post #6
jessaustin wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presumably there would be video? There is no explaining the tastes of Nebraskans. b^) I doubt the numbers would favor the felons, however. After a week or so the survivors will have hitchhiked to Sioux Falls.

Presumably there would be video? It seems so: "The South Dakota real estate agent said one Nebraska man said he want to buy the Swett ghost town and bring 2,000 Russian women and 600 convicted felons to live in the town. He wanted to build acrylic houses for the new residents to live in and set up cameras to run 24/7 and film the interactions, Syracuse.com reports."

Would something like this even be legal? It almost feels like a human zoo of sorts

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Post by mbil »

empthought wrote: post #13
netcan wrote: post #8

On one hand, this is a little land with a few building in unattractive location/condition. Not so queer. On the other… We are at a point in time when the wealthy are extremely wealthy. The billionaire club is substantial but even below that, personal wealth in the tens or hundreds of millions exists. What do people want to do with that wealth? It's more than can really be spent on comfort, entertainment, sex and such…

"Where are the wealthy who would like to try a bold experiment in communalism, anarchism, feminism or whatnot?" Flippant answer is that the two groups—"the wealthy," and people interested in that sort of thing—have almost no overlap.

An example of an exception to that rule of thumb: Robert Owen, a successful industrialist who became one of the founders of utopian socialism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen

http://www.ushistory.org/us/26b.asp

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Post by evanpw »

netcan wrote: post #8

On one hand, this is a little land with a few building in unattractive location/condition. Not so queer. On the other… We are at a point in time when the wealthy are extremely wealthy. The billionaire club is substantial but even below that, personal wealth in the tens or hundreds of millions exists. What do people want to do with that wealth? It's more than can really be spent on comfort, entertainment, sex and such…

There are a few (at least in the "whatnot" category), but they think bigger than 1000-person towns, and it's often unpopular with the public: http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/09/01/under-new-management/.
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