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"Meanwhile, the imminent move offers people little incentive to refurbish their properties and as an inevitable result, the city has become rundown."

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kiruna,+Sweden/@67.8553152...

Looking around the place, while it's not exactly Paris it does seem the author has a different definition of "rundown" than most people.

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It might be rundown compared to some places, but I disagree with the assessment that town is rundown as a whole. The mine is slowly buying up the properties that are going to be affected, and are tearing down the buildings.

A single click on the street view and I move from summer to winter. Magical.

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