Cityscapes Shot During A Pharmacy Visit
This is the main street in the north-south direction, Vesijärvenkatu. Northbound down the the top of the esker. It is at it's lowest right here.
Westbound on Vuorikatu north of the top of the esker as is the whole city center.
Rautatienkatu towards the south
Same street towards the north
The market square is straight ahead. The only pharmacy open on Sundays is on the right.
Aleksanterinkatu towards the west. It is the main street. The Aleksanteri in question is the Russian czar Alexander I who granted Finland autonomy as a part of the Russian Empire in 1809.
The pharmacy at the corner of Aleksanterinkatu and Mariankatu. I think Maria is another member of the same Russian royal family but I don't remember exactly who she was.
Down Vuorikatu towards the west
The old bus station is on the other side of the crossing.
When we were looking for a house to buy three years ago the leftmost one of those three was on the market. The asking price was €260,000. It was built in 2006. It has six bedrooms, a living room, a family room upstairs, a sauna adjacent to the main bathroom downstairs. Open concept kitchen. No garage but a car port and a cold storage room outside. The total floor space is about 220 m2. It seemed tempting but the one big minus was the new ring road under construction about 40 m behind where I was standing when I took this. I also didn't like the fact that the backyard is on the north side of the house. (I didn't realize that that was actually a plus. But that's a different story.)
In Tampere, which has a population of about two and half times Lahti, that house would've been on the market for about €350,000 if its location had been otherwise similar in my estimation. Tampere Urban Area grows at an annual rate about 2 percent whereas Lahti grows at a rate between 0.5 and 1 percent per year.