Comment by shermantanktop

I was born in the city I live in and so were my kids. They’ve never visited the #1 tourist attraction, and I only did when I was a kid.

My experience living in the UK was that we’d go off as a family to visit Arundel Castle or one of the hundred other amazing things nearby, and the Brits I worked with would say “oh yeah, I went there on a school trip…” or “oh I’ve heard it’s nice.”

Denizens of a place don’t always appreciate what their location offers. That doesn’t make them cool or better than tourists.

That said, I agree that central London is not somewhere I desperately want to go every day. But there’s a lot of great stuff there.