You are probably right. I get emotional over buildings quite often. Might be some kind of personality disorder.

Understandable. I also get emotional, though differently.

I reminisce when I see old buildings, even those in poor condition.

They make me think of the history of the place, and the connections I have to the past.

Also, I've lived in a lot of humble circumstances and have really liked the people I got to know, so I'm somewhat biased towards less modernized settings. I understand that there are a lot of problems in indigent places, and I don't want to minimize that at all, but I have fond memories.

This reminds me of Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul and the concept of hüzün. The memories of a once-great city and the collective melancholia of the people living among the ruins.

> gangs roaming the capital, looting, killing, and burning

That's quite the hyperbole compared to what actually happened.

Multiple buildings (including two schools) and hundreds of cars were burned, at least one elderly man was killed.

IDK of anything comparable in the US in this century.

It's hyperbole only in that the area affected was small compared to the rest of Sweden, in the same way that one street is small compared to the rest of the US.

>IDK of anything comparable in the US in this century.

https://www.google.com/#q=cars+burned+baltimore+riots

https://www.google.com/#q=damage+from+ferguson+riots

Yep. I stand corrected. Those are similar and on the same scale (i.e. larger than I had remembered). Like I said, there are worst sights than an old house.

Are you implying that the Daily Mail would exagerate something involving immigrants in Sweden? That's preposterous. /s