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Originally Posted by grapico
No, but I find the outside visitor usually has better insight into what is good and bad than actual residents, and often notices thing residents are just "used to". This is of course assuming they visit and spend time in a lot of cities. It gives them an objective lens to stack up the quality in multiple cities against each other. Residents when speaking of where they spend the most time are too often conflicted with illusory superiority. For that reason I tend to comment much less on say, Florida where I grew up, than I do other cities because I'm aware of my own probable bias. I generally tend to trust the opinions of well traveled people on here, as opposed to people who are "born and raised" somewhere who too often tend to skew towards "this is the greatest place on earth" and also go to the other extreme with "this is a rotting cesspool". The truth is usually somewhere in the middle. Now if I wanted to figure out where is the closest place to get good food from a particular part of the city, then I would definitely trust the local over the transient/traveler... they just aren't the best at comparing cities vs cities.
Not that you can't be right... but I am saying your opinion on it being the best music place in the country is a bit off. It's the same way with a lot of Chicago folks that think the Mexican and Chinese food here is good, I have gotten into arguments with them saying it isn't so hot, having also lived in California, and not from either.
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I get what your saying, but a visitor will remember the first impression of city as well right? Not fulling engulfing the situation/reason/feel of what the city has to offer on a day to day basis.
Well my friend two diffrent point of views and neither are wrong.
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