Getting to my apartment has been even hairier than usual lately. Both entrance streets are one way, but the one that is most accessible to me is on-again/off-again closed by a construction company that is building 5 $200k tax-abated townhouses on about 2000 ft2 of land. Each townhouse is, literally, ten feet wide. Would you pay that kind of money for a house ten feet wide? They are going to be three stories, with rooftop porches that have a delightful downwind view of the steel mill and of the rotting rooftops of the houses next door to them. The last time I saw the plans, they were also going to have one wall angling out over the street, and one side of the building covered in corrugation. That’ll look really pretty after a few years of sulfur dioxide in the rain. I really can’t see these things selling, but they probably will. I don’t know much about that.
I’m just bitching because my ride home takes an extra three minutes.