[investmentonlinev2006x]

If Wikipedia is to be believed, over 12,000 people live in this place. Where, I can't figure out, as I see no buildings. The Wikipedia article also says;

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[P1international]

oooo a failed exurb of the mojave/colorado deserts. then there are the not so failed exurbs. It's southern california's frontier. migrant agricultural communties, working class suburbs, desert trailer parks, hippie communes, resorts, drifters, loners, snowbirds, meth for all, secretive military bases, gorgeous landscape. if anywhere in southern california is still somehow "romantic" it's there ... unless you're stuck in a 2 hour commute to anaheim. could spend forever exploring.
everyone should make a destination of slab city. or maybe the integratron. or just joshua tree NP. none of these are representative.

[squicscor]

There's actually a very similar landscape outside Ft. Myers, FL.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&cl...45447&t=h&z=15

Of course, all these places are receiving renewed attention in the midst of the foreclosurepocalypse.

[investmentonlinev2006x]

The Florida example is at least a dense grid pattern, not in the desert, and could become a habitable place if built out.

[anderriter]

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[shodulsilfeli]

Looks more like dry river beds (there is a technical term for this that escapes me ATM) rather than man-made canals (though I could be looking in the wrong place.) I don't think this was ever farmed land.

[Aswdwdfg]

Like Bronson?

[shodulsilfeli]

Seriously, just Google.

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[katetomson]

Some of the best interior So-Cal apocalyptic photography comes from the small settlement of Bombay Beach, across the Salton Sea from Salton City. I highly recommend Flickring it. If half-submerged motels and trailer parks are your thing...

[investmentonlinev2006x]

Judging from the name of the YouTube poster, I think the video is of a rally rather than a race. In a rally, competitors are running against the clock rather than directly against each other simultaneously.