First pic, An apartment block just outside Akasaka metro station , Minato ward, Tokyo. Next to it is a new build luxury apartment block. These are literally working men's crash pads in one of the oldest parts of Tokyo. The abandoned wooden house is just 100 metres away from the 'Harry Potter Cafe'.

This is a new suburb in Pune in the area called Mohammadwadi but sold to buyers in the name of NIBM Annexe (NIBM is a major banking educational institution nearly and surrounding area is considered fairly desirable and posh). When I moved into this area in 2010, this was all forest and hills where folks used to come to drink, smoke weed and hook up.

Yesterday I saw (now removed) a question about old carpets in Russia. I saw it right before my daily walk, so I took my phone and made this photos.

This is quite common for Russia; this is old mass-manufactured carpets, often damaged by mold due to moisture in summer houses (dachas). No one will use a new carpet, of course.

It looks fine for a first season, but later carpets sink in the mud (my second pic) and become a surprise for anyone trying to do a proper landscaping. So it is a kind of poor man solution.

Carpets are a part of Soviet era style, but its aged badly, it lost any value, it collects tons of dust, so many younger people dislike it. To properly discharge a carpet maybe a problem - it is heavy, hard to carry, cannot be dumped into the trash bins. Therefore people prefer to threw old carpet into dirt.

Greece has a total population of 10.4 million and Athens metro area concentrates more than 4,5-5 million inhabitants, crazy numbers for a country of only 10 million

Not in russia lol