>>646079If individual people can change their interests so can a group of people. Everything you do you do a first time once. The funny thing is most people have urbex experiences as a kid. Who didn't go sneak around in the empty house around the block when they were 10? Or found this pile of bricks or small ruin somewhere in the forest playing around and would go back to it the next 5 days to play around. Its in our nature to explore, we just grew out of it because of parents, teachers and other people telling us to grow up, "take responsibility" and mind our own buiseness, not get in trouble, etc.
Truth is, the need for exploration is still there with a lot of us, but the connotation of it being stupid and childish is there too, and the indoctrinated idea that it's somehow ethically wrong to get on some abandoned property and the fear of discovery is also there.
I'd suggest to go a couple of times on your own, take some cool pictures, choose locations you can find some background from, so you can tell a story about your trip, give it depth, make it sound exciting and not childlike but also safe enough so they don't get infused by more fear keeping them back. Also play on the political idea that it's absurd that walking over abandoned property is illegal, so it looks you stand for something, and there is an ethical excuse which reduces the fear of being caught.
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