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How much of this is [[Truth in Television]] varies widely. In highly-populated areas with thriving economies, this will almost never occur; if an [[Abandoned Hospital]] is sitting unused for any period of time, ''someone's'' going to exploit the local abandoned property laws to claim the land and build something,<ref>unless the cost of cleanup and demolition are exorbitant.</ref> even if that "something" is just a parking lot. On the other hand, structures in depressed economic areas, remote locations, or [http://englishrussia.com/?p=293 disaster zones] can lay untouched for years, simply because no one is around (or ''wants'' to be around) to care. But even in places where buildings do stand vacant for long periods of time, they're rarely truly ''vacant''. Squatters, trespassers, and thehomeless homelesspeople will take up residence for a time, usually being driven off at semi-regular intervals by the local authorities. And there's always stray dogs/cats, raccoons, and other wild animals.

* The Hyperion Hotel has been sitting abandoned quite a long time until the title character rents it in ''[[Angel]]''. Of course, the demon in residence there might have had something to do with it.

* ''[[Sim CitySimCity]] 2000'' takes this trope and makes it go as fast as lightning. The moment tenants move out of a building, it is instantaneously transformed into a dirty, run-down ghetto shack, regardless of what it was before. Sometimes a new building will appear on that site, but usually not.

** This depends all on how well one plays the game. The building remaining as run-down ghetto is a direct indication of lack of skill at managing onesone's city.

* In ''[[Constructor]]'' and its [[Spiritual Sequel]] ''[[Mob Rule]]'', if a building is left without a tenant for a long time, it will be settled... by a six-foot cockroach. Needless to say, the neighbors are a litlelittle concerned about bad influence on their children (you know those roaches).

** The Factory is actually a fairly close reproduction of an [http://www.lightningfield.com/04/07/050228.html abandoned] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103095551/http://aprslw.webs.com/realcodelyoko.htm Renault factory] on Ile Seguin in the Seine River, in Boulogne-Billancourt outside Paris. It was shut down in 1992 and demolished by 2005; the island currently awaits the construction of some sort of cultural project, probably a large art museum. (The show's factory mainly differs in color scheme; the original factory was mostly white on the outside, while the show's is more beige.)

* As linked in the description, there's [http://englishrussia.com/?p=293 the entire city of Pripyat, Ukraine,] site of the famous Chernobyl incident. HasnHadn't been touched inbetween overMay 202, 1986 and the [[w:Battle of Chernobyl|Battle of Chernobyl]] on February 24, 2022... and abandoned again on March 31, years2022. Of course, there arewere some illegal excursions.

* Abandoned room example: [[w:Crypt of Civilization|The Crypt of Civilization]], a giant airtight time capsule at Oglethorpe University, was forgotten about for thirty years after its sealing in 1940. As it's not supposed to be opened for another 6000 years, somebody'd parked some furniture in front of the door, hiding it from notice for decades.

* A notable variation is [https://web.archive.org/web/20130820032054/http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1975397_2094492,00.html the city of Ordos], in China's [[w:Kangbashi districtDistrict|Kangbashi District]]. It's a "new" city, built by local officials beginning in 2004 to show a healthy annual GDP, but is was almost completely abandoned becauseuntil it's ''toowas expensive''completed forin people2016; toby live2017, inover 300,000 people lived there.

* In Mexico, when a drug dealer is arrested, all property in his name is "secured" until it can be proven it wasn't made with dirty money. Such is the case of one discotheque named "frankie oh", property of Benjamín Arellano Felix, which has been abandoned for years; at one point the entrances were blocked to stop people from going inside. In the later years publicity has been hung outside the please to prettify it a bit. More details (in Spanish) [http://www.debate.com.mx/eldebate/articulos/ArticuloGeneral.asp?IdCat=6097&idart=10415598 here.]{{Dead link}}

* In Evansville Indiana, a couple discovered that an office building that they sought to buy had an entire second story that had been sealed off for over 70 years. Even with much of the furnishings removed it still contained several fireplace mantels, a stack of old canceledcancelled checks dated between June and December 1930 and and other tidbits related to the hardware company that made use of the offices in the second story.

* [[wikipedia:Sunland Hospital|Sunnyland]], an abandoned[[Abandoned hospitalHospital]] in Tallahassee, Florida. It wasn't recycled for decades due to the expense of demolishing a building filled with asbestos.

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