Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "Top 10 Largest Abandoned Cities on Earth" video.

  1. My mother as a child, fled with her family from the depression in Texas during the early 30s, and they drove to California so her father and uncles could work on the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, a very dangerous job in usually terrible weather. They were so poor that they moved for awhile to "Chinese Camp" in the sierra mountains, it had been abandoned by the Chinese and everyone else, so it was affordable. I saw it in the 1960s, and the place was dumpy and looked so rough and unlivable. My mother said it hadn't changed, and left abruptly saddened by memories of hunger and displacement. When my parents retired, they chose, for some reason, to move BACK to the Sierra's and the chinese camp area. I am just guessing but I believe my mother wanted go up there after a very successful life, to kind of "show everyone up there" that she wasnt poor now! No one up there would care or remember them, but mom was determined to live over again and change the past somehow... Life played another joke on her by turning Chinese Camp into a fabulous vineyard and resort area which was with millions. My mom still couldn't afford to live there! Everything is relative, I'm not sure what the lesson really was, about this story, except not to care about what you don't have wherever you are, and protect your dreams.
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