Following local councils "can be better idea
It is a classic travel tip: When looking for a great restaurant, cool bar, landscaped park, boutique shop, or anything else, get the input of a local. Is this a terrible approach?
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Budget Travel has always recommended to do as the locals do destinations. That includes a visit to the "Times Square like a native," explore cities like New Orleans drink like a local, and even beer as a local in U.S. cities and drink liquor like a local all over the world. And of course with a long series of "Eat Like a Local" stories, we warmly support the concept of dining where the locals eat.
But in an article for American Express Get Currency blog, Matt Gross – the former New York Times Frugal Traveler columnist, who had many fans here at BT – argued that to ask locals for advice is often a bad move, he said.
"The locals are just as likely as all others to bad food tastes, bad taste in clothes and delusions about the places they live What's more, they will not understand necessarily what you have a visitor in her home city, really want. Out of In your experience, when I was in Ireland last year, I did ask the locals – from the hotel clerk at random strangers on the street. – where some of the interesting Irish cheese I did was get out there and the locals did send me to Tesco, the British supermarket chain. "
What is your take? If you are traveling, ask locals for tips on where to eat, shop, or hang?
And above all, the Council has collected from the locals tend to be good or bad have?
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