Until their recent unpleasantness, Tom and Nicole, who had a house close by, were occasional visitors.
"To be honest," he said, "I just wanted a house close to my family".
At his bedside was his brother Nael, 36, who lives in a house close by.
At our house, close to Pienza, there's an amazing wood oven and outdoor grill.
It's a Frozen-style hit for the Mouse House, close to grossing $1b across the globe.
He said he had sold a similar house close to a year ago for $150,000 more".
A house close to his, he tells me, was originally bought for £415,000, and recently sold for £265,000.
Jim and friends rent a house close by the action and paint other houses to pay the rent.
One thing is clear, though: "I do see myself in a house close to the city, living with my mother," he said.
I see the back door of that house close to the slow creek where a drunken, angry man stumbles across the threshold every Friday.
No one was allowed within 10km of the Berlin Wall, and you needed a special permit if you lived in a house close to it.
