Like why do I feel like I’m supposed to be able to name the seven boroughs? I can’t tell you anything about L.A., Chicago, Boston, etc.
Edit: to clarify: I mean that everyone in America are expected to know NYC. Not just New Yorkers. Obviously everyone should know the layout of where they live.
Wait a minute, what?
I’ve been to a few cities all over Europe, lived in a couple of them for years, and I feel like having a general knowledge of the geography of where you live is a basic requirement of life.
Didn’t you play the “capital city game” with friends as a kid?
I mean, it’s cool with me if you or anyone has no idea of the layout of your local map, but that’s a surprise for sure.
My point is that people in the US are kind of expected to understand the layout of a city that they may never have been to or maybe only visited as a tourist.
It’s only the “local map” for like 8 million of us.
Where are you getting this impression? I’ve never gotten any sense that anyone outside the city is “expected” to know its geography. “Expected” how?
Also there are only 5 boroughs
The way the title is worded (“a city where people are expected…”) implies this is referring to people that live in NY. I’d clarify it by saying something like “the only city of which people from the rest of the country are expected to know…”
The seven burros – happy, sleepy, grumpy, sneezy, doc. I’m missing a few.
Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, New Jersey, ACAB Island, and Westchester
Definitely not in the world lol, I don’t think most Europeans care for or have any idea of the geography of New York
I don’t know, I think maybe it depends on age? Most people exposed to US media will recognize at least the landmarks, but that’s probably true of other cities as well.
But NYC has been in so many videogames I feel younger people with a passing interest in gaming will at least have a weird set of expectations. Of Manhattan, if nothing else. The twenty years of open world Spider-Man games alone are more exposure to an overhead map of a city than most people get of the place where they live in that amount of time.
Like gamla stan in Stockholm, les Champs-Elysées Elysées in Paris or like the Colosseum in Rome?
I mean if it’s known its known, but “people from the capital” sometimes (or to be cocky) thinks everything revolves around those places I guess.
In Eastern Europe even the most illiterate citizen of a town/city knows the neighborhoods and where they are in relation to one another, if that’s what you’re asking.
