“Around here” is wherever they live, and we don’t know because they didn’t say. For all we know they could live on a farm without a single skyscraper nearby and what they said would be perfectly true.
Regardless, the brick facades on steel skyscrapers does not make them masonry building construction like in Op’s picture.
It’s around the subject, we already had a subject: the building. To be around themselves they would need to change the subject. Even given your example it’s not true, vicinity needs scale. The moon is around my vicinity if we use a stellar scale and there’s certainly a skyscraper closer to them than the moon.
That’s heavily dependent on era, size, region and quite honestly actual location in the building as well as height. Lots of early steel framed skyscrapers had traditional masonry lower stories that were wider than the steel framed core.
“Around here” is wherever they live, and we don’t know because they didn’t say. For all we know they could live on a farm without a single skyscraper nearby and what they said would be perfectly true.
Regardless, the brick facades on steel skyscrapers does not make them masonry building construction like in Op’s picture.
It’s around the subject, we already had a subject: the building. To be around themselves they would need to change the subject. Even given your example it’s not true, vicinity needs scale. The moon is around my vicinity if we use a stellar scale and there’s certainly a skyscraper closer to them than the moon.
That’s heavily dependent on era, size, region and quite honestly actual location in the building as well as height. Lots of early steel framed skyscrapers had traditional masonry lower stories that were wider than the steel framed core.