My best piece of travel advice is to avoid doing what the locals do.

Even in locations and societies that are not as degenerate as Anytown, USA, even in places like Finland where people are (or claim to be) happy all of the time, the average day for the average local is not very interesting. They probably haven’t visited their world-famous local museum in ten years.

I liked this spin on the usual take. On a personal level, I lived a few blocks away from the iconic Seattle Space Needle for about 4 years and never once visited it. It wasn’t until I moved further up north from downtown that I ended up visiting and really enjoyed the view.

It’s a good reminder to actually look at your own city through the eyes of a tourist. It led me to find this delightful side project from someone that helps you find interesting local things to visit by pulling data from Wikipedia: Izeria.