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I do.
I've lived all over the world, and several places in America.
The Internet is an amazing tool for finding out how places are now, and why and how they've changed.
Of most interest to me is places I was stationed in the military for 6 years, both US and abroad, from the mid 70s to early 80s.
The end of the cold war resulted in the US closing many facilities, domestic and overseas.
One US base has vanished entirely without a trace, being replaced by an upscale planned community.
Weird.
One US-abandoned base overseas has been leveled, but not before that country used it used for rehabilitating drug addicts.
On Google maps I can see scars in the land today where every building once stood.
Another isolated base overseas has converted into a weather station after the US military left that country.
The cool thing about military bases is tons of service members were also posted there and love to post their recollections, fond and not so fond, of their time there and post pics on fora and blogs.
My favorite overseas location hasn't changed a bit ... but when I was there nearly everything looked a hundreds of years old - the cobblestone roads and ancient Catholic churches and town squares.
The earliest house I lived in is still there, as is most of that city and my elementary school.
I think my dad paid maybe $6,000 for the new house around 1959, but today Zillow says it's worth 100 times that.
But then, one apartment we lived in around 1969 was brand new and very nice, but the area has since deteriorated into a notorious slum.
Has anything interesting happened to the places where you've lived?
I've lived all over the world, and several places in America.
The Internet is an amazing tool for finding out how places are now, and why and how they've changed.
Of most interest to me is places I was stationed in the military for 6 years, both US and abroad, from the mid 70s to early 80s.
The end of the cold war resulted in the US closing many facilities, domestic and overseas.
One US base has vanished entirely without a trace, being replaced by an upscale planned community.
Weird.
One US-abandoned base overseas has been leveled, but not before that country used it used for rehabilitating drug addicts.
On Google maps I can see scars in the land today where every building once stood.
Another isolated base overseas has converted into a weather station after the US military left that country.
The cool thing about military bases is tons of service members were also posted there and love to post their recollections, fond and not so fond, of their time there and post pics on fora and blogs.
My favorite overseas location hasn't changed a bit ... but when I was there nearly everything looked a hundreds of years old - the cobblestone roads and ancient Catholic churches and town squares.
The earliest house I lived in is still there, as is most of that city and my elementary school.
I think my dad paid maybe $6,000 for the new house around 1959, but today Zillow says it's worth 100 times that.
But then, one apartment we lived in around 1969 was brand new and very nice, but the area has since deteriorated into a notorious slum.
Has anything interesting happened to the places where you've lived?
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