The locals don't know

Post by ShinyLeftPad » Wed, May 13, 2026, 10:01 AM UTC

starky wrote: post #178

ShinyLeftPad wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Last year I was in Kuala Lumpur for a few days and took the person I was with to a bunch of the places I had visited when I was there a decade ago. Usually explained by a different time of week/year/month. If you stay in a place for a while you get a sense of patterns. Often there's waves of tourists depending on neighboring country holidays and if you're a local you learn to avoid popular landmarks during those ti…

>Usually explained by a different time of week/year/month I hadn't thought about that and checked the dates of the photos I took on both trips. Coincidentally apparently I was there within a week of exactly 10 years apart!

Many big holidays don't coincide every year on the same date in Gregorian calendar, and in a few places I lived such that central landmarks can be absolutely flooded on particular days of week because it's a tourist destination or for religious observances.

Not to say you're wrong, maybe there's more tourists, but from experience it can be misleading.

Post by mbirth » Thu, May 14, 2026, 9:20 PM UTC

zarzavat wrote: post #7

The corollary of this is that if you are a local you should do some more touristy things. I don't mean to go to a tourist trap and get scammed, but just enjoy your city a little more and do some things that usually only tourists do. For example, despite living most of my life in London, I've never been to the Tower of London. Why would I? It's for tourists. Except it's probably quite fascinating, especially for a loc…

What’s even better is that thing with memberships here in the UK. While the single admission price for these “touristy” sites might appear quite steep, usually for not much more (and sometimes even without paying extra) you can become a “member” for a year and return as many times as you wish. This removes the pressure of “making the entrance fee worth it” and made several attractions much more enjoyable for us. Often, it even allows free entry into partner venues.

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