The only thing at the annual May Lilac Festival is snow. You can't swim at the beach. You thought you figured out that alternate-parking thing, but wind up with a ticket anyway. Toronto is about 70 miles away, but it takes about four hours to get there. There's an 800 number to report a pothole in the road.
City planners begin yet another feasibility study, in lieu of actually doing anything.
You ask lifetime residents where the George Eastman House is, but they don't know either. In a city where it snows at least 90 inches a year, they build a new sports stadium with no roof on it. Buildings with statues of guys with wings on the tops of them are not unusual to you. It can be 70 degrees one day, below freezing the next, and you think nothing of it. Your mother is buying outfits to wear to Wegmans.