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Desire Paths

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Desire paths Desire paths can be paths created as a consequence of erosion caused by human or animal foot-fall or traffic. The paths usually represent the shortest or most easily navigated routes between origins and destinations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path

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People walking between the bus stop (outside the picture) and the building (on the right) don’t like taking the long route around this huge green circle. It was pretty obvious that this would happen sooner or later.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That’s pretty impressive detective work.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This pic has a lot of clues in it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What are the other ones besides the restaurant?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So looking at it, I saw a few things. The easy thing is to google the restaurant name, of course, but there were other clues.

The trees were tall evergreens, suggesting northern part of the northern hemisphere.

The license plates appear to be European style suggesting somewhere in Europe.

There is a street sign that is like 4 feet wide but only two lines tall. Suggesting Scandinavian.

That was as specific as I got before looking at the street view that was posted and seeing Norway.

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