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Originally Posted by Docere
In Toronto and Montreal, a local.
In NYC, a tourist/expat in Manhattan, a local in the outer boroughs.
Chicago - don't know.
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Originally Posted by the urban politician
I don't know about Canada, but in both New York or Chicago when you hear a foreign accent it means nothing. You really can't tell if they live there or are visitors.
For Chicago one clue is if they are walking around downtown in groups and with shopping bags. More likely tourists. If they are out in the neighborhoods pushing a shopping cart or sitting at a pub--you're looking at a local
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I suspect that in all of these cities, the foreign-accent person will have proportionally a greater chance to be assumed a local in the more outlying/suburban/residential areas, and proportionally more likely a tourist downtown.
But perhaps, in New York and Chicago's case there's enough foreign tourists downtown (relative to local commuters) that the perception is stronger, relative to the case for Montreal and Toronto?