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Justin McElroy
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Justin McElroy's personal blog at justinmcelroy.com covers culture and writing. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts about visiting Kitsault, a 1980s Canadian ghost town, and about towns that emptied when local resource industries left. One comment describes the Kitsault commercial spaces as Backrooms-like.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-29
What Hacker News says?
Among the commercial spaces, one of them is about as close as they come to the popular, liminal-space conception of The Backrooms: https://justinmcelroy.com/2022/07/26/visiting-canadas-50-mil...
Comment linking /2022/07/26/visiting-canadas-50-million-1980s-ghost-town/
on “Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town”Submitted Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town as a story · 540 points
HN discussion>> the value of the land (which doesn't really deprecate) Maybe in urban centers. But go out into the hills and you will find many towns where land prices tanked once the local resource industry moved on. It isn't just 18th century gold rush stuff. There are towns from the 80s that just emptied when the local industry moved on. https://justinmcelroy.com/2022/07/26/visiting-canadas-50-mil...
Comment linking /2022/07/26/visiting-canadas-50-million-1980s-ghost-town/
on “The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)”