Typical Barred up Door Security in Yambol Apartment Homes

You will often find doors barred up as an extra security measure in Yambol apartment homes. Wise acts in view of bad folk looking for opportunities to steal in the secluded environment of apartment blocks without CCTV.

A Harley Davidson Motorbike Parked in Yambol

It is quite common to see Harley Davidson motorbikes around Yambol, you usually hear them before you see them. This one I saw but didn't hear, no doubt a club member of 'The Riders' had parked up his pride and joy in a place where admirers could view. Indeed a fine looking, well kept machine and probably worth the same or more than many apartment homes in Yambol.

A Yambol Home In Need Of Repair

Looking around Yambol City and not only in the outskirts, you will see many homes that are seemingly in desperate need of repair. You may well ask why don't the owners do something about it? Well the answer is quite simple, you need money to fund repairs and most who own places like this are old and on a pension that barely feeds them. Such a shame that these once proud homes are no longer maintained, in my view there is something to be said about the old socialist ways that would not let this happen.

Yambol Homes Cleared For More Development

Yet another area in Yambol city centre sees Old Bulgarian houses being demolished to make way for new developments for profit. I do not know what is planned here but is certainly won’t be a Bulgarian house but more than likely to be expensive apartments geared to wards foreign buyers. There are so many of these instances and many that have got half way through the development and then being abandoned due to lack of funds or buyers.

Four Typical But Different Types of Yambol Homes

I chose to take this picture today because it has four distinctly typical, but very different types of Yambol homes, all within 50 metres of each other.

1. Tucked on the right, just visable with a roof in bad repair is a single floored gypsy house, the smoke from the woodburner was clearly visable at on this cold day.
2. On the left is the pink three floored apartment block rather dated now.
   
3. Next to this is a modern seven floored apartment block still being built - These types are so common now in Yambol, they are just cramming apartment block all the time now.
4. Then there is the familiar sight of the tall grey apartment block, again, very common and very popular for being so economic on heating in the winter.

A Yambol Obraztsov Dom - Model Home

On passing a house today I noticed that one had the mark of being judged to be a beautiful home. This award system was in place in the olden days of Bulgarian socialism where houses got a placard and certificate if their home was deemed to be a model home. In fact my own farmhouse in Skalitsa has such an award on its gate. Shame it doesn't still apply, but you will still see many placards still on walls and gates of older homes in Yambol and the surround.

Slightly Posher Apartments

These Yambol apartment homes are a few years old now and in the street we live in. They are the new breed of apartments that are slightly more 'up market' than the 'blocks'. Again, well out of the price range for the ordinary worker now.

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