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Anderson, Indiana

Back in the day, Anderson in Indiana was a thriving factory city. It was home to a whopping 24 General Motors factories that employed almost all of the locals - and life was fairly uneventful for those who lived and worked there. But when all of these factories closed down and around 23,000 people found themselves unemployed overnight, the city struggled to regain its footing. Since then, it's continued to struggle.

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In fact, so many people have chosen to leave Anderson behind that the city had to shell out almost $3 million in 2015 to demolish hundreds of abandoned homes that were taking up too much space.