When we arrived after dark at the Cairo airport Friday night, it was a one hour trip across the city to the hotel. From the freeway, I kept seeing miles and miles of what looked like unfinished apartment buildings with open windows. Except some of them had lights and televisions on and even more seemed to have laundry hanging out the windows.
Apparently, it is more difficult to get "permission" for building projects than to "not finish" one and just add on when so moved. Not really legal but "overlooked" except in certain parts of the city. So these unfinished apartments have people living in them and can be built upon whenever. Miles and miles and acres and acres of these. A very practical approach, actually.
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