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Originally Posted by atisketatasket
Sure, streets are public, but that's not relevant, since I'm not claiming anything illegal or bad is happening when someone drives by another's house. I'm also not asking about just anyone passing by, though. I'm asking about someone you know going out of their way to check out your house. The idea of a student going out of their way to see where I live makes me uncomfortable. I think it would make a good number of people uncomfortable; all of this was first said in response to another poster who wondered why this is such a hot-button issue. And I think that's why.
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Ah, I was just imagining someone I knew driving by my house to take a look at it, as you had referred to in your question about whether that would bother people. It wouldn't bother me, because I believe really strongly in the notion of public space, and that we are all free to be out and about in it (as long as we behave in an unthreatening manner, of course). I just wanted to express the fact that it would not make me uncomfortable and explain my reasoning.
It's cool if we disagree. I just wouldn't see it as a problem if someone I knew were curious about where I lived and wanted to drive past to see my house, no more than it troubles me that Google Earth passes by and takes a picture of it and then allows anyone in the world to access it.