Looking at all these dwellings makes one wonder about the living conditions of the people who need to live in these high rises (the photo lower left with the laundry & T.V. dishes in the windows.)  Many times the outside can be and is actually very deceiving, and a coat of paint to the outside would do wonders to the impression and/or concern one has about living there.  Now I know I could find places exactly like this throughout the states (especially the further one goes south into warm weather, and even more in the drier, desert areas, & larger inner-cities), but on this trip there were just so many swaths of old, used-to-be vibrantly colored buildings throughout huge sections of cities where old and new are very mixed.