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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
I can see playing games with the geography in big cities, but when you're setting your story in a small town (like Ann Arbor), it pays to know where the university is located, and which streets go one way which direction. If you can't do that, make up your own small university town, and don't pretend it's someplace where you want to have solid local color.
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When authors are inaccurate about details in big city settings, though, more people are likely to notice--namely, all the readers who are residents of that city or who visited it.
I don't mind if authors blend fictional locales into a real city--like making up a hotel or restaurant name or residential address and plunking it into the city--and I don't mind if they play a little fast and loose with things like how long it might take to get from one place to another, but I do get annoyed if they tell me someone rode the F train for six stops to get from point A to point B when it's actually four stops on the E train.