You made me recall a time when I was broke while in school. I had classmates in neighborhoods like these. I'd take a bus and then hike to their place. But walking there was weird. People that saw you (most buried in their TVs or whatnot) looked at you like something was wrong. Like, what is someone doing _walking_ here (I usually walked fast, so it was clear I was coming and going), since I didn't visit often, they didn't "recognize" me apparently and walking really threw them off or marked me as "stranger" or slight "intruder" as I had not driven in -which was the normal mode.