# Travel tips: local idiosyncrasies, etc.

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-tips-local-idiosyncrasies-etc/139935
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 2, 2002, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-tips-local-idiosyncrasies-etc/139935 "2002-12-02T10:39:29Z")
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### Author: ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2002, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-tips-local-idiosyncrasies-etc/139935/1 "2002-12-02T10:39:29Z")

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If a friend of yours was to visit some place (or places) where you live (or have lived), which peculiar qualities of the locale would you want to point out? For example:  
– In **Alabany, NY** , where I’ve gone to school for the last 4 years, I should point out that Albany cab drivers are the single most corrupt set of people I have ever known. A handful of exceptions aside, they seem always ready and willing to cheat people. I hope I never have a heart attack in one of these cabs, because I wouldn’t trust the driver to do anything other than rifle through my pockets and dump me by the side of the road.

– In **New York City** , where I live, I would say . . . I dunno, “If you don’t jaywalk, you’re just going to look stupid.”

So, local idiosyncrasies?