NYC real estate is really overrated. There are literally fourteen coats of paint on my kitchen going back to the 1950s - it’s been white, beige, red, yellow, gr

NYC real estate is really overrated. There are literally fourteen coats of paint on my kitchen going back to the 1950s - it’s been white, beige, red, yellow, green, and sky blue at various times in its existence. I found I had a dedicated circuit for a window air conditioner - the socket had been filled with putty and painted over at least four times, I hired an electrician to dig it out and now I no longer blow a fuse when my refrigerator and air conditioner both run on a hot day. I did say fuses - until two years ago I still had a fuse panel and a box of spare Edison S-type fuses standing by in case one blew at night. Getting a circuit breaker panel was the best day ever - ironically just two weeks after I found a vendor on Amazon that sold breakers that fit the S-type fuse sockets. A luxury apartment in NYC is one where the baseboard molding meets the floor instead of leaving quarter inch gap for all the vermin to crawl out of the walls at night. My solution was to fill all the gaps with silicon bathtub sealant, still allows for movement but keeps out stuff with more then two legs. It really bothers me that my doctor and dentist have offices with the same gaps - I can only guess what crawls around at night.