I tell you what, it's a lot easier for a person to get an idea of what another country is like than it was years ago, what with the internet and youtube.
How many people actually bother to to do the research though ?
There are dozens of pages about life in my city, even all the pages from the local newspaper every day, plus endless youtube videos.
One of the first things I did before meeting my fiancee was to look up all the info' about her hometown, plus the place where she was working.
The actual houses were on google maps too.
For addresses here in England you can even take a 'street-level' view of the house.
Here is my street....downloaded straight from Google maps:
(I could also have taken a view looking straight at my own house, with enough detail to show the house number on the door.)
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