# You're an American. What city should your good foreign friends visit first?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 5, 2011, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-american-what-city-should-your-good-foreign-friends-visit-first/605194 "2011-12-05T23:08:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-american-what-city-should-your-good-foreign-friends-visit-first/605194/81 "2011-12-17T16:53:09Z")

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If I’m to be their driver and tour guide, we’re going to Boston.

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**Author:** ![Kasper1014](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c89c15/32.png) [@Kasper1014](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kasper1014)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-american-what-city-should-your-good-foreign-friends-visit-first/605194/82 "2011-12-17T17:44:55Z")

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I live in San Antonio. A lot of culture, riverwalk and hill country.

However, I voted NYC. Boston would be my second choice followed by DC as those cities are what screams America to me.

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**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-american-what-city-should-your-good-foreign-friends-visit-first/605194/83 "2011-12-19T10:47:30Z")

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> [@devilsknew](#):
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> America’s North Coast. The Erie Sea. It runs from New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, into Michigan, back around again through Ontario. Try the scenic Erie highway.

Put aside a month… start a couple of days in New York, come into Laguardia and take a cab, hit broadway and manhattan for a couple of days, head out in your Caravan/Mobile Home-Buffalo, Erie, Cleveland, Sandusky, Put-in Bay, kelley’s, Toledo, Detroit, Windsor, London, Toronto, Niagara Falls.

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