The infrastructure is in most places ancient...I would not be surprised to see a migration to the mid west in my lifetime...we got water, and we got oxygen.

The ancient central AC unit went out on me about 6 months after I bought the place.

It makes me feel like I've discovered some ancient martial art that can allow me to walk on water or something. 

That was actually one of my first goals way back when I first started, I wanted to do a first class European/Greek islands.

Some really great posts here, especially @Dave Foster @Jay Hinrichs @Joel Owens @Brie SchmidtI would just add an ancient saying that I live with daily, along the lines of many of the previous posts"Who is wealthy?

(cigarettes) in atrocious Greek to every man that passed him on the sidewalk all day.

Really this strategy is ancient.

Fortunately for me my ancient units are not suitable for even considering opening up, but they're what people expect in old neighborhoods.

The only time I encountered that was in the Greek Islands in 1980.  

We marketed to grad students who didn't want roommates, and single working people who preferred to save money than pay for a fancy apartment.We had ancient small oven/stoves - but they were all detailed before each tenant, so were super clean.