A good traveler notices when convenience for visitors becomes inconvenience for residents.

Every place you visit is somebody’s ordinary week. The shortcut, the early boat, the street closed for a photograph: each of these has a version that lands on people who live there and cannot opt out. Most visitors are not careless, only absorbed, and absorption is enough to turn a neighborhood into scenery.

On your next trip, spend a moment asking who bears the cost of the thing that makes your day easier. Move aside on the narrow pavement, keep the volume down after dark, and spend where the money stays local. It changes little for you and quite a lot for them.