Kitsault BC: The Ghost Town Where Lights Are Still On But No One’s Home

[1srelluc]

Think ghost town and you'll probably imagine ruins roofless houses, dirty broken windows, rotting floors, but at Kitsault, on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada, you'll find rows upon rows of immaculately kept houses, shopping centers, restaurants, banks, pubs and theaters, all abandoned and sitting empty but untouched and spotless. The town's lights are always on, the streets are lined with neatly trimmed trees and there are freshly mowed lawns, yet no one has called Kitsault home since 1982.


The town of Kitsault, near the Alaskan border, situated about 115 kilometers down the gravel road from Terrace, had a very brief existence. It began in 1979 as a community of workers of the molybdenum mines. Molybdenum forms hard, stable carbides in alloys, and is often used to provide hardness and corrosion resistance properties to steel. But just as life was getting started in this pristine mountain utopia, the market for molybdenum crashed and the entire town of some 1,200 residents abandoned it.







moaR


If that was located somewhere warmer it would be inundated w/ homeless people and meth heads in short order regardless of security.

And liberals would demand these people be left alone and allowed to live there for free AND the owner has to keep maintaining the property.

 

[protectionist]

If no one has called Kitsault home since 1982, who's mowing the lawns, and keeping things clean ?

 

[Hossfly]

If no one has called Kitsault home since 1982, who's mowing the lawns, and keeping things clean ?

Some guy named Juan and his 17 kids.

 

[Confederate Soldier]

Seems like a waste.

 

[protectionist]

Think ghost town and you'll probably imagine ruins roofless houses, dirty broken windows, rotting floors, but at Kitsault, on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada, you'll find rows upon rows of immaculately kept houses, shopping centers, restaurants, banks, pubs and theaters, all abandoned and sitting empty but untouched and spotless. The town's lights are always on, the streets are lined with neatly trimmed trees and there are freshly mowed lawns, yet no one has called Kitsault home since 1982.


The town of Kitsault, near the Alaskan border, situated about 115 kilometers down the gravel road from Terrace, had a very brief existence. It began in 1979 as a community of workers of the molybdenum mines. Molybdenum forms hard, stable carbides in alloys, and is often used to provide hardness and corrosion resistance properties to steel. But just as life was getting started in this pristine mountain utopia, market for molybdenum crashed and the entire town of some 1,200 residents abandoned it.







moaR


If that was located somewhere warmer it would be inundated w/ homeless people and meth heads in short order regardless of security.

And liberals would demand these people be left alone and allowed to live there for free AND the owner has to keep maintaining the property.

Hell of a waste. Looks like a nice place. Market for molybdenum shouldn't matter for Social Security retired people.