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This already happened in many other areas. You don't ask locals for directions anymore. You just have Google Maps.

There used to be jokes about how men don't want to ask for directions...

I mean why would you ask locals? There's a good chance that the person you asked is a tourist or an immigrant, and regardless of that, they'll all just... pull up their own phone and check on Google Maps, at the very least so they can show you the route on the map. Why would you ask another person to be a "meat proxy"[0] for the thing you can trivially check yourself?

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[0] - Some new phrase I suddenly saw pop up everywhere in the last few days. Must be popular with cool kidz.

Maybe you make some friends and also maybe you obtain some information to get you off the well trodden path of tourism.

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