How often are you a tourist in your own city/town?
 

I hear it all the time from people that live in London that they rarely get out and explore the tourist sites of the city. I am guilty of that a bit too because I guess when you live somewhere you always think there will be more time to see something. When I first moved here I was all over the place exploring but these days I only really see 'tourist' things if I am showing a guest around.

Yet, I just got back from going to another British city and exploring it like a proper tourist.

How often do you explore your own city or town in the way that tourist would?

hardly ever, just when someone comes over

All the time. I live right on the beach in san diego and I see more tourists than people who live here. Everyone is from somewhere else and I meet alot of interesting people. The people with cameras always come and take pictures of the beach

I still like to get out and explore.

It is alwasys changing so there are alwasys new things to see.

Every weekend. We live in Andorra, and we like to go to the mountain to do some trekking, or skiing, or to watch woodchucks, visit old churches (there are a lot of romanic churches here, all made with rocks), have a pic-nic on a quiet place, etc. :winkwink:

Thing is that in London, there are so many awesome places to go see.... you can live there all your life and still not see everything.

Often, but not often enough.

Most of the time. Marbella and Puerto Banus are those kind of places you always feel like a tourist.

New orleans is always a party and its always open... not much tourist stuff to do except party, gamble, fuck. I go to the French Quarter for my incense regularly etc...

It is the same way in London. I know a lot of people that have lived here their whole lives and never been to places like the Tower of London. It is good when my family visits because it gets me out to actually see such places.

I never appreciated everything Washington DC had until I moved then came back for visits.

I loved living in DC; there is more to see and do than anywhere in the World.

Three or four days a week. :thumbsup

I am a tourist everytime known people come to Buenos Aires and I have to show them some parts of the city, then I see my city with renew eyes, I see things in same places where I never saw them, nice feeling.

Isn't it funny how that happens? I have been to the top of the Empire state building, but I am a native to Arizona & have never been to the Grand Canyon.

Pretty bad, eh?

Hell yeah one of the best things about living here. Taking the day off and hitting the beach, too bad you can't drink a cold one when you get there:mad:. I also love to just stroll around the SD Zoo. So many great spots to check out in San Diego.

wish I could more, a lot i haven't seen

I try to do it every few years in my little town. It's pretty funny how differently shop owners talk to you when they think you're a tourist and then you tell them you live here :) Tourism is a large part of the town's industry so even though ALL true Southerners are polite, we become overly polite so as not to make the tourists not want to come back. But secretly, we all hate the tourists, lol ;)

Londoners are mostly the same. They will give out directions and be polite and then go to the pub and bitch about tourists.

My town is a shit hole. Anyone that knows Middlesbrough will agree. We have nothing worth seeing here really. We have a river full of waste from the steel works, your legs will dissolve if you go for a paddle in it. The only thing that is actually unique is the transporter bridge but even that sucks.

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There was a show on TV a feww months ago that put this town as the worst place to live in the UK

often enough

I live in Vegas, so all the time :(

I have never been there but I am really strange in the I want to visit even the places like that in the UK so that I have personal experience of them when they come up in the news, etc. My partner is from 'up north' and I think my vision of the UK has been enriched simply by spending more time up there and seeing the UK outside of London. Of course, it usually shows me that I am a Londoner but at least I know from experience now.

Not very often. Probably only about 10% of the tourist-type attractions in any area I have ever lived.

not as much as i should....