Having spent a few years teaching in China and sleeping with a tight grip on a broken-spined and Sriracha-splotched ?Lonely Planet,? I eventually realized that the entire logic of asking the locals for travel tips while they are in their own city was flawed.
If you're a local in a tourist town, you see tourists as a type of animal or child that doesn?t know what he or she wants, so you give them something boring.
The only local you should ask is the one who you meet elsewhere.
When I tore up my passport and retired, aged 25, to the turquoise strands of Miami Beach, and found myself teaching English, I started asking my students, who traveled here from all over the world, to let me in on the best secrets of their home countries and hometowns.
As professionals and travelers in their own right, I stand by their advice.
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