Today I took a walk only about 4km outside the city center. I was going to a particular grocery store to purchase a present for my niece that recently went on sale. While I was walking to this store, I couldn’t help but notice all the apartments along the way. Living in Florence’s city center can be quite expensive. So, for the most part, most locals live within commuting distance to the center. This particular area that I was in, is one of those residential areas. While I was walking I was looking at the living conditions of these apartments. It is very difficult to not judge the book by its cover but some of these places just don’t look at all appealing to me. I can’t say much because if you were to approach the door leading up to my apartment you might turn back around and never ring the doorbell. The outside of our apartment is terrible looking and when we first looked at it from the outside I almost started crying. However, on the inside, our apartment is actually quite nice when compared to other apartments I have seen.
When I was initially apartment hunting here in Florence, I didn’t think I would ever find a place. My mom was with me and I did in fact almost cry every time we saw another apartment. We saw some pretty horrible buildings. The problem here in Florence is that everything is just very old. I am sure you find the same sort of living in older American cities as well but, for the most part, I have been very fortunate in finding very nice apartments in the states and well, also here in Florence even though I would prefer it to be larger.
Below you will see some of the apartments and streets lined with apartment buildings. There isn’t much more room in Florence to add more residential living and they just stack one building after the other and one in front of the other.
By the way, when I did finally arrive at the store to buy the gift, they told me the sale doesn’t start until Thursday!!! Crap!
In the picture below you will see the street lined with apartment buildings and street side parking.
This picture is the front side of a typical apartment building.
In this picture you can see the new construction of a building directly behind another building. There goes their view, which is actually of the train tracks.
These two pictures are of a tree lined street used for parking
The front side of apartment buildings
This is a really nice building. Unfortunately, its not apartments and is only for offices. If only they had more buildings built like this for people to live in.
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