Me too, right? I’ve been to Fox studios many times, also to Penguin Headquarters. “Fox and Friends” always put me up in what I’m sure they thought was a “nice” hotel: it was a room as small as my office. Everything crammed on top of everything else. Had to always go “out” to eat anything. Noise constantly, even at night as the garbage guys did their pickups. Sirens. People yelling.
If I took a cab, it cost a fortune, and the streets were jammed with delivery trucks, constant workmen working on something. Hated it.
I did get to go in the green room with three Miss USA contestants though! (Wow, were they . . . SKINNY. I mean, not just svelte, but rail thin).
I had an experience like that flying into San Diego.
The airline sent my luggage to Seattle (I guess because they are both on the west coast and start with the letter “S”).
The airline put me up at a YMCA in a closet that had a window overlooking hookers in latex skirts.
I’ve been there twice, and both times it was all the things you mentioned, minus the skinny Misses ;-)
The crowds, the noise, the dirt, the expense - no thanks !
A visit is understandable if one has a sufficiently lucrative business reason for going and then getting the hell out asap.
But anyone who wants it can surely have my share of it .. some folks are wired that away I suppose.
We may not have Broadway out here in PAlabama, but it’s quiet and most folks are still sane.