Posted on 08/12/2023 11:54:30 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
To paraphrase Yogi Berra: the houses are so expensive, no one buys them anymore
Yep, George got it right.
The question becomes.... Why buy a house when you can live in a tent? Tent dwelling in balmy California is where it’s at.”
My wife was living in one of these apartment buildings with her mom and siblings when we got married. She was lucky. Their apartment had it's own lavatory (which was separate from the bathroom). Some buildings had communal lavatories that the whole floor had to share.
One unique aspect (that would never fly in the U.S.) was the cleaning duty watchbill. Every residential address was on a cleaning rotation and during their duty week was expected to sweep and swab the stairwells and pick up the garbage in the common areas outside.
21st century communism will be miles and miles of tents and RVs.
Two-mile homeless camp takes over in California’s posh Marin County — and tax dollars help fund it.
Not bad. Sick beat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfjPxlKBNqQ&list=PLSRjTAOVGxU5oPTi0heDZ5HC9uOulUM_5&index=157
When I traveled through East Germany and Poland soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall...saw lots of the 5 story commie blocks. All concrete, all non-descript, dehumanizing, depressing, and dull.
More immigration would help.
Just convert all the empty commercial buildings. Of course, if the gubmint does it then I’m paying a part. Could be worth it for me, but I wouldn’t qualify to live there as I’m an old white hetero.
Democrats need to perfect their transmission methods of viruses.
Awful. Were similar buildings in the UK. Sheffield used to have one called “The Manor”. It was bloody awful and full of crime and filth.
Poland has changed so much. Even just from 10 years ago, when I went there for the first time. Warsaw blew me away with how much it’s changed, it’s one of my favorite cities now.
I loved Krakow. Beautiful.
Basically the Soviets got the ideas from what the Brits were doing after WWII, build ‘em fast and cheap, which actually made sense considering all the damage from the war.
But at least in Poland those old buildings have been spruced up a bit since.
I didn’t make it to Kraków last year, was there ten years ago, and I loved it.
I ended up going to the Trojmiasto area (Gdańsk/Sopot/Gdynia), it was fantastic. So much there, did the Westerplatte tour, saw the shipyard where Solidarność was born, and all that.
We considered moving to Poland at one time. Liked the people.
I’d move there in a heartbeat if I could. Well at least for the summer, the winters? Eh, not so much, even though I would like to go to Zakopane for winter.
Stayed in Zakopane as well. Right on the Czech border. Beautiful in the Summer.
One of my favorite memories from the first trip was visiting the wooden church in Orawka, near the Slovak border. I spent probably a good hour just going to the cemetary behind the church reading the headstones, wondering about everything those people experienced. And it’s beautiful country, it reminded me a lot of Switzerland.
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