During your scouting adventure in each location, spend time acting like a tourist….and, as well, invest time pretending you’re a local, doing the things you’d do if you lived there… such as…
- Go to at least one grocery store… see what’s on the shelves… compare pricing with back home…
- Spend an afternoon at the local shopping mall (if there is one)… looking at things you’d normally shop for (clothing, shoes, home furnishings, linens, kitchen utensils…)…
- Take taxis to get places you’d ordinarily want to get to… the grocery store, the bank, the movie theater…
- Read the local paper if you can… at least the local advertising…