# Subtle inaccuracies in depictions of your city/region in fiction

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**Created:** [January 14, 2021, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-inaccuracies-in-depictions-of-your-city-region-in-fiction/930508 "2021-01-14T09:45:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-inaccuracies-in-depictions-of-your-city-region-in-fiction/930508/179 "2021-02-02T01:04:42Z")

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There is a surprising amount of movie- and TV show-related tourism. The general public _wants_ to visit the places they’ve seen in their media. The advent of Google Maps, _et al_, plus cheap travel (pre-COVID), makes that trivially easy for the common Everyman, not just geo-geeks.

This whole thread is about places that are mostly real. And the liberties taken in geographical plausiblity.

> [@Shows or film that were actually filmed in the place where they are set](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-or-film-that-were-actually-filmed-in-the-place-where-they-are-set/930764):
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> In the thread “[Subtle inaccuracies in depictions of your city/region in fiction](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-inaccuracies-in-depictions-of-your-city-region-in-fiction/930508/143)” many of the examples are of shows that were filmed in places that don’t really look like the place they’re supposed to be set. I mentioned Breaking Bad as a counterexample, as a show that actually was filmed where it was set (or perhaps more accurately, set where it was filmed, since Vince Gilligan decided to change the setting to Albuquerque after deciding to shoot in New Mexico for financial reasons). So, not wa…

Anyhow, if the producers of a show use actual locations as-is with their real names, they are causing, sure as sunrise, a steady flow of gawkers to that street corner or train station or whatever. Which is a bit impolite. By munging up the names, faking the maps, etc., they prevent these mass pilgrimages.

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