I used to travel around my country by moving to a place for a couple of years, living and working there, then moving on. What I have found is that locals rarely

I used to travel around my country by moving to a place for a couple of years, living and working there, then moving on. What I have found is that locals rarely know more than a handful of significant places, with few receiving much thought and most being unseen since childhood. More often than not, the best people to meet on such adventures where those who viewed travel though a similar lens since they knew more of local history and geography than most locals or travel guides. I don't want to dismiss locals entirely. Some have a genuine interest in where they live. That being said, the local who knows a lot seems just as likely to be someone who relocated there as someone who was born there. Someone who doesn't take their place for granted because it wasn't their place to start with.