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We've all seen the images of abandoned Detroit: homes left to nature's reclaiming, but this vacuum of low home values (whilst a tragedy in itself) has created a new Wild West - open to broke settlers with big dreams and nearly empty pockets. Homes up for auction can be snagged for as little as five hundred, and who doesn't want to live in the dystopian society of our YA fantasies?

[Photo via @abandoned_detroit]

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