Some nice nostalgia for me<p>-In high school we walked to that exact KFC for lunch and would discuss the previous nights antics playing StarCraft broodwar.<p>-I used to fix computers (professionally) at a store on the same street as that gas station as an after high school job<p>-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<p>-Now out of those 4 buildings I think black berry only has two floors of one building<p>-Waterloo has seen serious decline since the death of RIM<p>-Not sure it will ever come back, most people including myself left years ago.<p>-there has been a serious condo tower boom, but that sucks for “walkability” and it’s radically changed the area<p>-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.