“It is a very nice block of flats by the suspension bridge. All the people crossing the bridge can see the washing. [...] “I have never hung my washing out and I have been here since 1992. There are three people who hang their washing out. It’s not very nice. “These are not cheap apartments. It is not very nice for people walking across the suspension bridge to see washing on lines.”
This must be some joke I'm just too rural to understand.
Or, perhaps, too "cheap".