the dying grote trekdreef

this is the building i lived in in the netherlands when i was on exchange. my room was 7 from the top and three from the left, with the orange wall. i guess they pulled off all the windows because they are going to demolish it with explosives. i used to joke that it was the ghettos of utrecht, being an area which had a kind of projects/ social housing feel. but if you look on the google maps link you can see that just on the other side of the main road, there is miles and miles of parks, walking paths encircling the city, and farmland, as well as old fortifications with moats.

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