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5 points | by cloudedcordial 2 days ago ago

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  • 486sx33 10 hours ago

    Some nice nostalgia for me

    -In high school we walked to that exact KFC for lunch and would discuss the previous nights antics playing StarCraft broodwar.

    -I used to fix computers (professionally) at a store on the same street as that gas station as an after high school job

    -In Dec/jan 2010 I worked 18 hours a day laying floors in the new RIM buildings at Philip/Colombia. A friend’s dad did a lot of the furniture moving. Both of us made over $4000 a week in our early 20s

    -Now out of those 4 buildings I think black berry only has two floors of one building

    -Waterloo has seen serious decline since the death of RIM

    -Not sure it will ever come back, most people including myself left years ago.

    -there has been a serious condo tower boom, but that sucks for “walkability” and it’s radically changed the area

    -if you attended university in Waterloo in the 2000s and lived off campus, wherever you lived is likely gone and there is a condo tower there now.