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Being a tourist in city I live in

Isn't that true for any tourist area? I live near the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and the day after the summer season ends we call "left turn Tuesday" because the traffic of distracted tourists declines and left turns onto the highway becomes easier. So many, especially those from urban areas or only experiencing tiny lakes where they live, leave their common sense at home when around the inland seas that are the Great Lakes, with fatalities occurring every year with people treating cold water and sometimes 15 foot waves crashing over jetties as if nature was a water park. Then, there are those calling the park service for help when they slide down a 400 foot dune face to Lake Michigan and find they don't have the strength and stamina to climb back up. They are given directions for a five mile hike along the shoreline to the nearest road. Being a tourist is fun, when you prepare and recognize that normal life still goes on.

But, when I was living in the Chicago area, I enjoyed being a guide for people visiting me. A great city to be a tourist in.
 
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@Gerald Wilgus and others: The view of Lake Michigan from Sleeping Bear Dunes Recreation Area. It is quite funny to be a "fly on the wall" and listen to the comments of someone who hasn't seen the Great Lakes before. "It's like an ocean!" "You can't see across it,...even with a telescope!" "A high-speed ferry takes 2 hours?!"

The opposite occurs when Michiganders go other states and see a "lake",..."So,...where's the lake? I see a frog pond." "Why is there a boat going around in circles?" :D
 
QuestJan said:
I love Sleeping Bear Dunes. Haven't been there since the late 70s. I had the BEST fresh-caught salmon ever there.
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I am partial to Lake Perch and Walleye. The Perch have been fat this year, and delicious. With the cool nights recently the Salmon have been coming into the streams to spawn.
 
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LadyS said:
The grass is always greener...
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Well, not always.

I see big cities and whatnot (I live in the middle of nowhere) and instead of "grass is always greener", to me it's more like "the grass is corrupted and covered in twitching eyeballs and oh yeah it's haunted and full of bees, the bees are also haunted."

I mean just... no. Just no. You couldnt pay me to go near a major city or tourist zone. I'm glad to instead be surrounded by blank fields that have literally nothing on them.
 
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View attachment 70568 @Gerald Wilgus and others: The view of Lake Michigan from Sleeping Bear Dunes Recreation Area. It is quite funny to be a "fly on the wall" and listen to the comments of someone who hasn't seen the Great Lakes before. "It's like an ocean!" "You can't see across it,...even with a telescope!" "A high-speed ferry takes 2 hours?!"

The opposite occurs when Michiganders go other states and see a "lake",..."So,...where's the lake? I see a frog pond." "Why is there a boat going around in circles?" :D
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I love the times when the conditions are nice to sea-kayak along the coast. The trip from Empire to Glen Haven is a favorite that goes along the base of the dunes.
Pic of this. My spouse (L) and I (R) along the dune face and entering the Manitou passage.

Alas, some visitors underestimate the power of Lake Michigan. It is one of the inland seas, not merely a lake.
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Misery said:
Well, not always.

I see big cities and whatnot (I live in the middle of nowhere) and instead of "grass is always greener", to me it's more like "the grass is corrupted and covered in twitching eyeballs and oh yeah it's haunted and full of bees, the bees are also haunted."

I mean just... no. Just no. You couldnt pay me to go near a major city or tourist zone. I'm glad to instead be surrounded by blank fields that have literally nothing on them.
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I know lol, just meant there will always be another place that we'd like to visit and be a tourist in than where we currently reside where the locals know better. But totally get what you're saying :).

I've only been to Edinburgh once, my husband used to work there. He ended up proposing to me at Edinburgh castle so it'll always be a special place for me.
 
Now you've got me reminiscing, @Gerald Wilgus

Our camping at Sleeping Bear Dunes invariably included a run up to Traverse City for Pasties. There was an amazing shop. Can one still get a decent Cornish hand pie in the Iron Penesula?

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The opposite occurs when Michiganders go other states and see a "lake",..."So,...where's the lake? I see a frog pond." "Why is there a boat going around in circles?" :D
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I currently live in a desert. Check out our rivers. Bone dry except following a monsoon - then watch out or be swept away.

Misery said:
You couldnt pay me to go near a major city or tourist zone. I'm glad to instead be surrounded by blank fields that have literally nothing on them.
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I love my vast desert within its ring of mountains

I am soon on my way to NYC for our annual bash. My first born & I celebrate Mother's Day on his birthday. I love visiting the city (especially, of course, the food)

But always glad to return back home to my big sky, exploring the desert with my little pack of doggies.
 
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Yep. you can get great Pasties in the upper peninsula. We may live in Northern Michigan, but to Yoopers, we are Trolls 'caus we live under da bridge (S of the Mackinack Bridge).

I've seen flash floods on desert streams. My first trip on the Green River through Desolation and Gray Canyons, and through the week large rainstorms up on the plateau would flood side canyons sometimes bringing down boulders. At one side canyon, a new rapid formed, we were the first to run it and named it Belknap Falls. Then, it augmented another into a fierce drop. Seeing some of that I was awestruck.
 
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Edinburgh is often romatisied by tourists and beloved by residents but the city and surroundings areas have been ranked as some of the worst places to live according to this:-

The 'worst' places to live in and around Edinburgh and why we don't agree
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But, aren't all cities that way? Composed of neighborhoods, each seeming to have their own character? It has only been the last decade that I moved out to the boonies, and while I enjoy the solitude and recreation, there is much in the city that I miss, including being able to walk to things, better shopping, great parks to relax in, and diverse entertainments.
 
When visiting places, I often like to stay outside of the CBD so I can better try to live like a local, even if only for a day.

For Edinburgh, Pilrig St is my choice - lots of B&Bs in a residential area that's pretty easy to get to/from the city centre by transit.
 
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