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My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps

429 points · 181 comments · ahmedhossamdev

  1. moomoo11 · · focus · HN ↗
    me too.

    i recently used street view to look at the places i lived in with my parents growing up.

    we only ever lived in apartments, and i remember as a kid i was sometimes embarrassed (looking back it pains me i felt this way, because i was getting bullied at school over it) by our car for example which was a old mazda my dad purchased for like 2000 bucks. it was missing hub caps, rusting on the side doors.

    but it was the car that my dad would drive to drop me off at school before commuting for almost an hour and 15 minutes to his job one way.

    it was the car i learned how to drive. i remember the steering felt so good, i still miss the steering feel even tho now i've driven some really nice cars.

    anyway.. i saw our old car and i actually cried. took screenshots of it, and put it in my iCloud.

    1. moomoo11 · · focus · HN ↗
      also since we were immigrants i looked at the places i grew up in as a kid in the old country.. they are now torn down and replaced by something new.

      wow.. i am a bit speechless, but i am not sad anymore. i feel happy, that there is something better now (hopefully)

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