I was going to say something like,
The next door lady looks out the window "Oh no, Ted is painting his house again! Harry! Turn off the game and get the ladder and bucket of paint!"
I had friends that years ago bought a bit of a fixer upper and spent years fixing and painting. After about few years of that he declared to me that the only way to do work to add more value to his house would be to paint the neighbour's house.
It turns out beautiful.
It's rare to see windows without bars, something common here for security reasons. That gives you a sense of how people live here. Not only do thousands of kilometers separate us, but so do the lifestyles.