When the lot is crowded, it can get tricky using the car. Co-operation and courtesy are required, and supplied, on both sides of the wall. Julio is a doctor, and his wife is a civil servant. Julio was born in the big house, before the extra rooms were added. He does not know exactly how long his family has lived here, although he believes that his mother's grandparents did not live here when his mother's mother was born.
Ownership is established by occupation.
Registration can be a complex procedure, often requiring the separate agreements of several neighbors. Inside places may or may not reflect the status of the buildings surrounding them. They pay their rent in US dollars. Their block contains a pleasant mid-priced restaurant, several medical and dental offices, an interior decorator's shop, and one of the most squalid Inside Places you could imagine. A jumble of cardboard, tar-paper, tin, and plastic tarpaulins.