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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
See? I do t even know how many boroughs there are!
Yeah, which nobody would "expect" you to if you're not from there