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La Casa Mia
Living room, MBR, the kitchen and looking into the kitchen from outside.
We also have an alarm system, a remotely controlled front gate (Below left) and a
twelve foot fence surrounding the whole yard (Below right. From outside)..
You can see the yellow plum (pruna) orchard across from my gate in the picture on the left. The weed infested area on the right is more of the yard of the abandoned Barillo from the parent web page. TOP of Page
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD These pictures will give you a poor (and correct) impression of what Naples, not Italy, looks like outside the fence.. My next-door neighbor is going to introduce me to some of my other neighbors so that I can get permission to take pictures of the beautiful yards behind the fences.
These are two of the streets in near my house. They actually don't look as bad in pictures as they are in real life. The one on the left gives a better sense of the unkempt ignored attitude of the population to areas outside the walls. They do, however, demonstrate the fortress mentality required to TRY to avoid being burglarized. While violent crime is rare in this area, theft of household goods and cars is a significant problem.
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PARCO DOGS
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This is a wonderful home. It has five bedrooms, three
bathrooms, an eat-in kitchen, laundry room, living room (shown below)
and dining room. Every floor in the house is tile and the
walls are stucco. The kitchen is behind the white umbrella and has two of the four shutter
panels open. Notice the balcony above the umbrella. You can see the ocean from the balcony
if you have a two foot neck. The living room is behind the blue umbrella. You can tell a
lot by looking closely at these pictures. First, we have metal shutters on every window
and door. Every door and window has a triple dead bolt lock. 
I would say that 15% of
the homes in the areas that I have visited are unfinished. Note that the half of the
house on the left is occupied while the half on the right is unfinished. Not even
plastered. When I asked my real estate agent, Lelo, about an unfinished
house next to a home we were looking to rent, he said, "That place has been like that
for 12 years. It will probably never be finished." Numerous explanations
include: This is a cash society..no home loans..when people get some money, they start
then run out of money never to finish. Some people start a home without paying the
considerable taxes and get caught...never to finish. Some people, like the picture
above, do a little at a time until they get it finished.
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parco has one or two dogs behind the fence. They bark all night and sleep when
I'm at work. They bark at each other, they bark at the ten thousand stray cats, they
bark at....well, everything and a few other things too. They are generally mean or
at least barking like mean. Notice the dog in the picture. Wrong!
Notice the two dogs in the picture. These dogs are outside the parco
fence. The Neapolitans (not all Italians. In Florence dogs are
leashed.) have a strange let-them-be attitude toward stray dogs. They just leave
them to eat trash and make other stray dogs. None of them appear to be mean, just
pathetic. These two, up close, are the most grubby, flea bitten, disease ridden
mutts on the face of the earth...but no one minds or cares.