“There is nothing more exasperating than reading in contemporary guidebooks disparagements of places that are deemed to be "seedy." Do the writers not notice that such places are invariably crowded with people? When a neighborhood is described as "seedy" by some Lonely Planet prude, I immediately head there.”
Lawrence Osborne
The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall
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