The apartment update

As I’ve been away for the last 4 days I haven’t had cause to look over my balcony at the construction work below. However I noticed this morning there has been progress. Right along the back boundary, boxing and reinforcing has been laid, awaiting concrete, for what I suspect is the back wall of the new building. As you can see from this photo, its mighty close to the boundary. The creamy coloured wall is the side of my apartment building The greenry are some climbers climbing up the  boundary fence to give a little privacy to the people in the first floor apartments, and the boxing, oh so close! From my uneducated, speculative viewpoint on the fifth floor, I think should the boxing indicates the wall of the new building its going to be about 1 meter from my bedroom window.

Land prices in Ho Chi Minh are very expensive, so every inch of land is used and literally building are right up against each other, frequently butting on to the previous. Its called getting intimate with your neighbours, and blocking out your light. AND no doubt we’re going to be inundated with late night visits from the concrete mixer trucks. I can hardly wait!