Yet, walking through Park Crescent the other day, past impossibly grand houses with their dark interiors that, like so many London buildings, are unoccupied, I felt an incredible sadness.
They will be accompanied by conservationists playing audio recordings of the primates' song in unoccupied forests in a bid to find so-called 'solitaries' – males who should be forming new family groups but have failed to do so for the last few decades.
The away allocation was 2,100, the declared figure 2,073, with obvious room for more than 27 there and swaths of Bury's own areas unoccupied.
But many are unoccupied, monuments to a construction boom that went bust.
They showed a worrying increase in the size and variety of China's local-government debt since 2010 as the ambitions of local officials, for additional roads, bridges, utilities, homes, lucrative business hubs and unoccupied ghost towns, far outstripped their revenues.
Trees with unoccupied hives got some protection as well.
Maybe the attackers expected more impact: it was pure chance that all the buildings were unoccupied.
Like its residential counterpart, the corporate lawn is seldom a locus of activity and remains largely unoccupied, a green moat subject to surveillance and receptive to control a "power lawn", in the words of the Montreal exhibition guide.
Only 1% of young people are unoccupied for more than a year between 16 and 18.
Mr Curley, who has worked on tribal programmes for years, says many homes built by the federal government for his tribe were left unoccupied because HUD refused to build them facing east, an important symbol for the Navajo.There are other problems.
In Dubai, a property bust has left a third of office space unoccupied, yet rents have remained stable.
