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According to the default settings of Google Maps for a user in Philadelphia PA, if you're IN HEAVEN, you're just outside of Cincinnati OH, whereas if you're IN HELL, you're a few hundred miles north, a little bit northwest of Ann Arbor MI. IN PURGATORY, it seems, is between Lewiston and Augusta ME.
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The striking thing, to me, is Google Maps' confidence in the uniqueness of these locations. In contrast, if you ask the same program how to get IN TROUBLE, you're given 9,994,390 options:
