I’m from Turkey originally before my family came to the US and moved to the middle of nowhere. Now when I have family that visits the US they all want to visit NYC, not SW Pennsylvania, so I’m the one giving tours.

It’s genuinely embarrassing to go anywhere off of the beaten path here. There are some nice parts to see but what’s particularly embarrassing is when they’re here for the second or third time and they’ve gone shopping and sightseeing at the major locations so they want to go off the beaten path and explore a bit. They couldn’t believe the homelessness. They thought it was made up that it was this bad here. They couldn’t believe the state of the public transport. They couldn’t believe how the average person lives here and at what cost. They really thought the average American living in NYC was living like a king and I had to be the one to let them all in on the secret.