Explore, man.
>>2796676just like walk around my city, see the known abandoned places, etc. with friends, and just go from there?
>>2796680Yeah. Maybe talk to some older locals. See what weird places they know about. You'd have the best luck with homeless but also the most risk because they might try to lure you into some kind of trap or be so crazy they send you scurrying after something that isn't there.
>>2796680yeah literally just walk aroundim in a sub reddit for my city and the sheer amount of people asking for abandoned things to explore for "photo shoots" is insaneits even more insane because if i stand in the center of the city and throw rocks i could probably hit a dozen or so abandoned buildings, and they are all pretty noticable with all the graffiti and barred windows on themjust look around and im sure youll find something
>>2796689Be careful though. Landlords will raise rents until their tenants go out of business and then pay out of pocket to keep security systems on and kvetch that they're not making any money. Most "abandoned" urban spaces are like this.
>>2796695>Be careful thoughi am, but not for the reason you thinkmost of them im pretty sure have asbestos in them and just cant easily be demolished
>>2796680I've heard you can try offering homeless people a cigarette before asking them for their knowledge
>>2796675Research. Look at maps. Find articles about your city; chances are if there's some interesting urbex locations they've been mentioned in the local news or local interest stories in some context. Find historical records for your city/county. Look at satellite pictures and compare them to street maps. There's so many resources out there...
>>2796675you gonna get a trespassing charge and a bne chargeGood Luck explaining it to future employers
>>2797174>the land of the free
>>2797241Correct. America is the only country that persecutes trespassing.
I used to like ""urbex"" as a teen but if you are over 18 you should probably consider to go outside in nature like normal people do
>>2798042What's wrong with urbex
>>2797243It's the only country that excessively persecutes it, afaik. Most other western countries, if you can just walk in, you have the right to be there unless the owner tells you to leave. It usually only becomes trespassing if you have to jump a fence or something similar.
>>2798054Kek.
>>2796675I had a mate who originally found all his spots by just messaging urbex people on twitter/instagram/etc asking where the spots where. Eventually he had enough connections that all of them would just go spot potential locations during their day to day lives, tell each other, and thats how they found spots. So just build connections then turn the network intro drones scanning for spots.
>>2798161People aren't going to give up their spot. Especially after COVID.
>>2797172>Find historical records for your city/countyHow to do this
>>2798046It's not classy. Stacking rocks while shitting in a bag is classy.
>>2798203>still giving a fuck about te grate coof goofAdorable.
>>2796675Best affordable gear to get started with urban exploration?
>>27982932 flashlights and good boots with puncture protection.
>>2798237nta but wdym not classy? like what makes urbexing not classy to u, in any meaningful way?
>>2798304nta but is a mask a good idea? or does it just depend on where youre going
>>2798309Mold you can get away with breathing through a shirt if you stir it up, but if you're trying to go into a very old industrial building you'll want a proper respirator for asbestos, and a sealed bag with a change of clothes so you can change out of your contaminated clothes before walking out into public and exposing everyone around you to asbestos dust.
>>2798311>you'll want a proper respirator for asbestosdo you know any good brands of respirator for this?
>>2798313Any one of them that uses filter cartridges and has a rubber seal against your face.The seal is the most important part, make sure it fits well and shave the day you go out.
>>2798313Dräger is top level. But no matter what you get, buy one with 40mm thread, never one with some proprietary filter. The 40mm flters are bulkier, but they've been around for close to a century now and are here to stay.Fun fact: my father still uses an inherited inter-war Dräger with 40mm. Still works fine, and still gastight. The ww2-era masks all failed over the last 20 years though. Probably had inferior materials due to being war-time products.
>>2798339>are here to staymaybe in your soviet shitholethe only militaries that matter, the US ones, don't use 40mm filters
>>2798355>German design>STANAG>also called NATO-thread>"i-i-it's soviet, I tell you!"You're not the brightest, are you?
>>2798355>US ones, don't use 40mm filtersYes, for about 15 years now. For the 50 years before that, they've been using the M40 gasmask. Guess what filter system those had...
shitpost bumpin
>>2798564lmao fr shits crazy i posted this expecting like 2 replies and now it's become the like de-facto urbex general or something
>>2798307Don’t listen to him he’s probably baiting. Do what you want. You won’t remember being “classy” on your deathbed, you’ll remember having fun exploring abandoned places
>>2796675Go to dilapidated areas. stair at the ground.
>>2796675How long have you folks been Urbexing?What is the magnum opus of your exploring?Closest calls?
Didn’t we used to have more urbex threads? What happened to them?
>>2798778Everyone got old, scared of criminal charges and moved out to the 'burbs.
>>2798778They been getting saged off to page 12 since before you migrated over from reddit
have a bump, OP
>>2799055
>>2798793I didn’t come here from Reddit. Nothing helpful there for urbex. I just remember there was a larping Italian boomer in those threads who threatened to shoot people trespassing and it always made me laugh
>>2797243That's not true. You're going to jail in most country with a good fine.
>>2799231nta but pretty sure that was an ironic post mocking the other anon for complaining about US trespassing laws
>>2799189>Italian>gunsLolLmao even
>>2799239Right, I haven't read the discussion. Still this is a good reminder, some people think private property don't exist outside of their comfortable house.
