Fluorescent lighting

On Nicaragua's aesthetic sudit sheet, there is no shortage of assets: sunsets, volcanoes, churches, people*, green valleys, blue lakes, rocky islands, you name it. However, when it comes to liabilities, number one with a bullet has to be the fluorescent lighting. It is everywhere--bedrooms?!--and it is ugly and every day I fear nightfall** because there is just no avoiding the glare. I understand the premise of energy conservation (those little buggers last forever, God damn them), but it seems like an awful sacrifice. There's so much natural and man-made beauty here...if only there were a better way to see it after dark.

 
* Witness the preponderance of foreigners who end up marrying locals. They are some lookers here, letmetellyou.

** Once again, to be clear--sunsets: beautiful.