Yeah the bars were definitely a saviour. I can't imagine how horrific it would have been to have broken glass all over with the rain and wind coming in destroying anything and having to wait until the very overrun emergency service could come to patch things.
I live in the inner city on the ground floor so the bars are an absolute must for safety reasons. Where I am is pretty damn great now but this was an extremely bad neighbourhood twenty years ago - probably Sydney's equivalent to what you read about places like Harlem. We still have an unsavoury element around but the area has been gentrified and it's pretty fabulous. After seven years here I'm used to the bars but when I first moved in it felt very weird to be in a cute little apartment that had windows like a jail cell.
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Date: 2014-10-15 02:19 am (UTC)I live in the inner city on the ground floor so the bars are an absolute must for safety reasons. Where I am is pretty damn great now but this was an extremely bad neighbourhood twenty years ago - probably Sydney's equivalent to what you read about places like Harlem. We still have an unsavoury element around but the area has been gentrified and it's pretty fabulous. After seven years here I'm used to the bars but when I first moved in it felt very weird to be in a cute little apartment that had windows like a jail cell.