” I have no desire to travel to someone’s home town just to look at their way of life like visiting a zoo.”
I’m sure that’s not why people go to Venezia. Watching the natives isn’t the draw; it’s the centuries of history. And perhaps imagining how the doge’s lived in the 7th or 13th century.
you have to live through cruise ship loads of people day in day out, tourist on an average summer day outnumber the permanent residents. They arrive on a ship floating on water and then ask when they disembark “whats the altitude here?” Where is the closest McDonalds?