DarkEdge opened this issue on Dec 03, 2009 · 34 posts
momodot posted Thu, 03 December 2009 at 6:50 PM
I am not finding on Google images of ordinary apartments and homes. I guess people who travel as tourist see mainly hotel rooms and restaurants and stores and clubs... there is no occasion to see the actual homes that normal people live in. Even in a rich place like Tokyo or New York City most people live in small cluttered older apartments. In New York I lived in Manhattan at one time but over the years have stayed in apartments in the Bronx, Harlem, Queens and Brooklyn... mainly in more modest areas that working people inhabit and only occasionally in the fancy homes of the super rich. Rarely is the normal reality shown on television or in movies yet it is how most people live. When I was living and working in rural New England people likewise lived in cheap apartments from the 50s or 70s not the pretty white house with picket fences that people imagine to occupy rural areas.