It’s common to hear that most who live in a city don’t really do many of the “touristy” activities that visitors will do. I am guilty of a number of these: in San Francisco, i still have not visited Alcatraz. Here in New York, I still haven’t been to the top of the Empire State Building, having favored taking guests to the Top of the Rock, and I still have not been to the Statue of Liberty. Like other locals, I detest Times Square and avoid it like the plague, and I take pride when tourists ask me for directions because it’s almost like a badge of pride that, yes, I do live here.