>The reason people use "When in Rome..." or "do as the locals do" is because that's how you get an accurate taste of what life in <place> is like.

>There's a reason tourists flock to New York City and not to Schenectady.

Ah, yes. The masses of tourists flocking to NYC so they can experience the grind of working your ass off, every entity you interact with trying to get one over on you hoping that you'll have a) banked enough to day cash out to <shuffles cards> Hazleton Pennsylvania b) spend so many years in one apartment you're paying far below market rate.