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Stout mother and her little son walking lane — Stout mother and her little son

I was walking in Taipei's Datong District. Walking on the main street was not much fun, so I chose a side street. There were a few signs and some stores, but most of the buildings on both sides of the alley seemed to be residences. However, there was no laundry hanging out to dry in any of the houses. It lacked a sense of life.

Thinking about it, it is not so common to see laundry hanging outside of houses in Taipei when walking around residential areas. I wonder if there is a law against hanging laundry outside windows to protect the appearance of the city. This is in contrast to Shanghai, where clotheslines stick out of every window and laundry is hung out on the street. At least in Taiwan, there seems to be no custom of drying clothes with long clotheslines sticking out of windows.

As I continued down the alley, I saw a well-dressed mother and a young boy coming from the other side. I was tempted to ask them how they hung their clothes to dry, as their house must have a lot of laundry, but I couldn't ask them.

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