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Oh, that’s true too. And my analysis wasn’t scientific at all– Dude spent all day on Google Maps and kept showing me representative samples. He’d mostly show me interiors, but occasionally he’d be like “… and this is what it looks like on the outside, which if I saw that here I’d just run away.” “And this one’s got a great location, but you wouldn’t know it by Streetview.”
“That looks like it’s a hundred miles from anywhere,” I agreed. He laughed. “It’s one block over from the main drag of the capital city, which has fully four times the population of the city where we live.”
It’s just funny because it’s disorienting, I think. Which is, of course, the point of going anywhere far away, right? You see things you wouldn’t see if you stayed home, and you experience how people from far away live their lives, which is going to be different from how you live your life, so there!
I grew up on an unpaved road, and Dude has basically never seen an unpaved road, so that’s a crucial filter in the perception here, too– he was only showing me stuff he found weird.
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Oh, that’s true too. And my analysis wasn’t scientific at all– Dude spent all day on Google Maps and kept showing me representative samples. He’d mostly show me interiors, but occasionally he’d be like “… and this is what it looks like on the outside, which if I saw that here I’d just run away.” “And this one’s got a great location, but you wouldn’t know it by Streetview.”
“That looks like it’s a hundred miles from anywhere,” I agreed. He laughed. “It’s one block over from the main drag of the capital city, which has fully four times the population of the city where we live.”
It’s just funny because it’s disorienting, I think. Which is, of course, the point of going anywhere far away, right? You see things you wouldn’t see if you stayed home, and you experience how people from far away live their lives, which is going to be different from how you live your life, so there!
I grew up on an unpaved road, and Dude has basically never seen an unpaved road, so that’s a crucial filter in the perception here, too– he was only showing me stuff he found weird.
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