Cityscapes Shot During A Pharmacy Visit

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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.

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Westbound on Vuorikatu north of the top of the esker as is the whole city center.

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Rautatienkatu towards the south

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Same street towards the north

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The market square is straight ahead. The only pharmacy open on Sundays is on the right.

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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.

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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.

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Down Vuorikatu towards the west

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The old bus station is on the other side of the crossing.

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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.



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