Explore, man.

>>2796676
just like walk around my city, see the known abandoned places, etc. with friends, and just go from there?

>>2796680
Yeah. 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.

>>2796680
yeah literally just walk around
im in a sub reddit for my city and the sheer amount of people asking for abandoned things to explore for "photo shoots" is insane
its 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 them
just look around and im sure youll find something

>>2796689
Be 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 though
i am, but not for the reason you think
most of them im pretty sure have asbestos in them and just cant easily be demolished

>>2796680
I've heard you can try offering homeless people a cigarette before asking them for their knowledge

>>2796675
Research. 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...

>>2796675
you gonna get a trespassing charge and a bne charge
Good Luck explaining it to future employers

>>2797241
Correct. 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

>>2798042
What's wrong with urbex

>>2797243
It'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.

>>2798054
Kek.

>>2796675
I 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.

>>2798161
People aren't going to give up their spot. Especially after COVID.

>>2797172
>Find historical records for your city/county
How to do this

>>2798046
It's not classy. Stacking rocks while shitting in a bag is classy.

>>2798203
>still giving a fuck about te grate coof goof
Adorable.

>>2796675
Best affordable gear to get started with urban exploration?

>>2798293
2 flashlights and good boots with puncture protection.

>>2798237
nta but wdym not classy? like what makes urbexing not classy to u, in any meaningful way?

>>2798304
nta but is a mask a good idea? or does it just depend on where youre going

>>2798309
Mold 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 asbestos
do you know any good brands of respirator for this?

>>2798313
Any 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.

>>2798313
Dräger 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 stay
maybe in your soviet shithole
the 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 filters
Yes, 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

>>2798564
lmao fr shits crazy i posted this expecting like 2 replies and now it's become the like de-facto urbex general or something

>>2798307
Don’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

>>2796675
Go to dilapidated areas. stair at the ground.

>>2796675
How 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?

>>2798778
Everyone got old, scared of criminal charges and moved out to the 'burbs.

>>2798778
They been getting saged off to page 12 since before you migrated over from reddit

have a bump, OP

>>2798793
I 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

>>2797243
That's not true. You're going to jail in most country with a good fine.

>>2799231
nta but pretty sure that was an ironic post mocking the other anon for complaining about US trespassing laws

>>2799189
>Italian
>guns
Lol
Lmao even

>>2799239
Right, 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.

>>2798365
>replaced 15 years ago
yes exactly, 40mm is not here to stay

>>2799231
Wrong!

>>2796676
NOOOOO

>>2799648
?

>>2798304
Where do I even find boots with puncture protection?

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