Buildings

So, on the Saturday after our arrival, the team was taken to tour around Odessa. It was a nice tour, but it was easy to see that even in one of the major cities of the Ukraine, things were not going 100%. See, things there are viewed slightly different as here. When a corporation, in North America, wants to open up business, or a new family wants to move into the city, the answer is often buy a small building that may require a bit of work, so that it is cheaper on the initial cost, if not overall. In Odessa, if a building is in disrepair, why buy it and fix it? Why buy a lot in the middle of the city, tear the old building down and make a new one? So things are in disrepair. in some areas, one in two were abandoned or boarded up. This did, however, let us see a bit of what old Ukraine would have looked like. Also, the sculptures and art, and architecture there make North America look dull and boring. The statues in the squares, yes they have squares, look fantastic even when occasionally missing a bit. The squares are nice and pretty cool :D Over all, I'd say that Odessa is a much more beautiful city than any I have yet seen in North America.

--Scott