[cucumber3732842]

>The reason people use "When in Rome..." or "do as the locals do" is because that's how you get an accurate taste of what life in <place> is like.

>There's a reason tourists flock to New York City and not to Schenectady.

Ah, yes. The masses of tourists flocking to NYC so they can experience the grind of working your ass off, every entity you interact with trying to get one over on you hoping that you'll have a) banked enough to day cash out to <shuffles cards> Hazleton Pennsylvania b) spend so many years in one apartment you're paying far below market rate.

[stackghost]

I love sarcastic, passive aggressive comments that add nothing of value

[cucumber3732842]

Your opinion is contradictory and based on falsehood. Nobody goes to NYC to experience what the locals experience.

There, better?

[stackghost]

>Nobody goes to NYC to experience what the locals experience.

Categorically false. People absolutely do do this. I do this when I travel anywhere. You don't have to start working a retail job in Hells Kitchen to get a taste of life in New York. But if you ride the subway, visit central park, eat at restaurants frequented by locals instead of tourist traps, then you are in fact experiencing what locals experience.