When you move to a new city, you never want to sound like a tourist. Superficial, uninformed takes don’t usually sit well with the locals. Especially when you begin working for a magazine that prides itself on fluency in that place.
So I was more than a little nervous when I moved across the country to write for Seattle Met a few years ago. I knew some of what not to say. Don’t pitch any stories about grunge, rain, or tossed fish, I told myself. Don’t state the obvious. Still, I was acutely aware that I couldn’t know what I didn’t know about this city.
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