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    An "apocalyptic" UK town "like North Korea" has been left largely derelict with streets full of boarded-up houses.<\/p>\n

    Horden in County Durham, which sits on England's northeast coast, was once a thriving mining town with a flourishing community.<\/p>\n

    But after the colliery was shut down in 1987, the town fell into disarray as workers and their families were forced to leave in search of work.<\/p>\n

    READ MORE: Inside the UK seaside town where boarded up homes sell for as little as 20k<\/b><\/p>\n

    YouTuber David Burnip, who posts videos of some of the UK's cheapest homes for his channel Wandering Turnip, set out to investigate and found rows of abandoned homes with boarded-up doors and windows.<\/p>\n

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    "Four thousand people were working at the coal mine, living here, spending their money, and bringing up families," he said in a clip titled '\u00a320,000 Houses In A Boarded Up Seaside Town!'.<\/p>\n

    Now, however, it's a different story.<\/p>\n

    "It's so apocalyptic-looking," he added. "[It's] almost eerie.<\/p>\n

    "I can't imagine anyone ever wanting to live in one of these, no matter how nice it was renovated, being surrounded by all of those derelict properties would be really depressing and downright creepy at night."<\/p>\n

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