Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town • Hacker News Board

Re: Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town

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Post by themodelplumber » Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 8:10 PM UTC

This reminds me of NFB's _Welcome to Pine Point_, a web documentary about a vanished community:

https://pinepoint.nfb.ca/

Re: Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town

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Post by designium » Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 8:10 PM UTC

At least if there's a zombie outbreak, I'd go to Kitsault for refuge.

Re: Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town

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Post by OrangeMonkey » Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 8:10 PM UTC

frenchy wrote: post #5

_jal wrote: post #3

I missed the "1980s" part at first and expected an article about Google's panopticon-town. What ever happened to that?

I belive it got cancelled ( https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sidewalk-labs-cancels... ).

Google, canceling a project? Surely you jest.

Re: Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town

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Post by mkl95 » Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 8:15 PM UTC

I'm no real estate developer, but isn't $50M very cheap?

Re: Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town

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Post by jonny_eh » Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 8:17 PM UTC

mkl95 wrote: post #14

I'm no real estate developer, but isn't $50M very cheap?

In 1980's dollars?

Re: Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town

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Post by jjulius » Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 8:17 PM UTC

mkl95 wrote: post #14

I'm no real estate developer, but isn't $50M very cheap?

From the article:

>Not only a ghost town, but a ghost town that was built for $50 million in 1981...

>It is a long way from any major city, and not accessible by road...

Edit: From Wikipedia...

>In 2004, the ghost town was bought by Indian-Canadian businessman Krishnan Suthanthiran for $5.7 million; he has spent $2 million maintaining the town.[2] In the end, he would have spent over $20 million more to fully update the town. He has also since closed the town to the public.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsault

Re: Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town

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Post by Alupis » Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 8:17 PM UTC

mkl95 wrote: post #14

I'm no real estate developer, but isn't $50M very cheap?

Assuming CAD and using the Bank Of Canada's inflation calculator[1], $50M in 1981 equates to about $154M today.

[1] https://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/related/inflation-calculat...

Re: Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town

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Post by jonny_eh » Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 8:17 PM UTC

designium wrote: post #12

At least if there's a zombie outbreak, I'd go to Kitsault for refuge.

Because there's a pub?

Re: Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town

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Post by gwbas1c » Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 8:21 PM UTC

marcodiego wrote: post #8

Rant: Please give-me real links to images. I love ctrl-clicking them and then later looking at them on the open tabs. This clicking an image and having a modal overlay prevents me from reading the text.

Right-click to open in a new tab works.

Re: Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town

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Post by RC_ITR » Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 8:22 PM UTC

upupandup wrote: post #7

BC in the 80s, 90s seemed like completely different worlds compared to today. Vancouver especially seemed to have peaked early 2000s before the housing bubble took off. Rainforest Cafe, Playdium, Indy 500, Vancouver Grizzlies, Canucks. It had so much going for it. What was once a fun, soulful city is now something completely different.

Excuse my ignorance, but do you mean something more than there being a rainforest cafe there?

Semi-tangential: you’ll probably enjoy this video: https://youtu.be/vA-bjpKvIw8

His mate made a similar video with a more positive tone, but this one struck me as funnier.