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Tourists put Times Square at the very top of their to-do list.
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Even worse, they insist on getting a hotel there too.
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They waste time and money taking cabs instead of the subway.
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But when they talk about the subway, they mistakenly call it the metro, tube, or underground...
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...and they refer to subway lines by their color instead of their letter or number.
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They pronounce Houston Street like the city in Texas.
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They think that everybody in Manhattan lives like Carrie Bradshaw...
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...and they equate Brooklyn with what they saw on an episode of Girls.
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On that note, tourists tend to totally ignore the outer boroughs of Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island.
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Tourists spend hours waiting in line for Insta-famous food.
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Or they eat out at chain restaurants.
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They waste time shopping in overcrowded Soho.
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They underestimate just how much walking they'll do in a day.
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Tourists fail to understand that most of Manhattan is a grid of streets and avenues...
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...and that "uptown" and "downtown" define the way New Yorkers give directions.
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They assume all New Yorkers are assholes who are too busy to help them with directions.
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But then they stop in the middle of a busy sidewalk to take pictures and prove the asshole part right.
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