Quote Originally Posted by fred View Post
I suppose he built the house over the girls' original nipa hut with holes in the roof etc which just happened to sit up there on top of a hill..

He`s not the fittest geezer in New York as he sits on his .... in a Taxi all day.

Perhaps going up and down that hill all day might change top heaviness?
Plus being a smoker for a long time will have taken its toll on his lungs, so again his decision to live up a huge flight of stairs is really puzzling to me. You can see a heart attack coming along one day climbing that lot. Well, good luck to him.