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In the southeastern US, Yelp is almost negative signal because southerners have legitimately horrible taste.
by estearum 3mo ago
In the southeastern US, Yelp is almost negative signal because southerners have legitimately horrible taste.
- maccard 3mo agoI have an unfair suspicion that the people who make yelp great in the US are the same that make it suck in Europe!
- fireflash38 3mo agoA lot of rural areas you really just gotta discount the ratings, both on Google maps and yelp.
- maccard 3mo agoIn fairness to people, yelp and google, if there’s only two places to eat in a town there’s only two places to eat. The local people are likely friends with the people who run the places and their social hubs. Personally if my mate opened a restaurant and it was awful, I’d tell him nicely but I wouldn’t leave a bad review for it. I think tripadvisor in the US suffers from the same problem as yelp in Europe - it’s predominantly tourists so the places visited are predominantly places tourists visit. If you want the tourist experiences they’ll keep you right but if you want “what the locals eat” you have to do what the locals do.
- Anamon 3mo agoMy experience living and travelling in Europe was that this is definitely true for TripAdvisor, but much less so for Yelp. Mostly tourist traps (that you'd find anyway) on TripAdvisor, while I found some amazing, hidden, non-touristy (think no printed menus, just staff that explains the day's dishes in the local language) restaurants on Yelp. I concluded that Yelp is used more by locals, but maybe the people using it just align with my tastes better.