Imagine living in a block where home is an apartment that is half below ground and the toilet cistern is perched on a flight of stairs to mitigate the low water pressure.
The view through the only window in the apartment is of drunks stopping to relieve themselves and, because of a lack of sunlight, fresh laundry always smells musty.
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