When I was a child the school bus went through Times Square. Does that sound romantic? It is, if your idea of romance is "Kinky Kong". That's the sort of epic film that used to play at the many movie theaters the bus passed each day.
Back then, Times Square was a great place -- to get mugged. New Yorkers who didn't work in the vice industry avoided it like the plague.
Fast forward to today's Times Square. It's the biggest tourist attraction in the United States' most popular tourist destination. Now that summer is coming it will be hard to walk down the street. Clots of visitors stand shoulder-to-shoulder staring up at the lights or thronging outside Broadway musicals.
Sounds exciting, right? It is, for about five minutes. Then it's annoying, and maybe a bit scary, and often dangerous.
Still, everyone wants to stay in Times Square. or other similar tourist traps, like San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. When we visit a new area we crave something familiar. Tourist traps, with their name recognition, fit the bill.
Home exchangers tend not to live in tourist traps. Real people don't. So how do we know which neighborhood to pick in a new home exchange city? Stay tuned...
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