There is construction going on next door.
Fine finish on the cement – it answers quite a few issues inside the flat I'm staying in.
Come to find out that a building owner only has to pay taxes on a building once it's finished. Until it's finished – what is complete can be occupied. So you see quite a few buildings with very nice finish-outs on the outside and upper floors but the first one or two floors have gaping holes where windows and doors should be. The ground floor is (for the most part) secured. Or at least the entrance for the upper floors has a security door but the rest meant for shops are just walls and places for windows and doors. The front is NEVER landscaped – one is lucky enough to have some marble tiles laid so a floor mat can be put down to scrape the dirt, mud, grime off one's shoes before stepping inside.
The refrigerator. Easy to understand why it's leaning back at that angle.
Again – this is all manual labor. The lot next to the building under construction has been excavated about 15-20 feet down, all by hand. There has been a team of (what looks to be) 20-somethings working all day.
As for drainage – I think there is a sewer drain of sorts in the street – a 6” pipe set off the side of the road. I thought Town Lake was bad....the Nile – OMG! I wouldn't swim in it if my life depended on it. Cairo is in the middle of the flush.
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