That’s a good question, Andy. Very few of these places are demolished; they are just left to the elements. Sometimes, an old farmhouse will become storage when the family builds a new place, but that’s not the norm. Usually they just fall apart.

And, yes, around Lubbock, we DO have plenty of available space. I am writing this from Central Texas, where it’s much less open, and in my travels today, I saw a lot of abandoned places. So I guess it’s just the way things are?

Of course, in more heavily vegetated locations, like where I am now, the abandonment can be harder to see because it gets covered up by plants within a few growing seasons. On the high plains, around Lubbock, it’s a more arid climate so we don’t have the kind of plants that grow up enough to hide an entire building!

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