When New York appears on screen, the establishing shots are familiar, but once you’re in close-up, it looks nothing like the real thing.
When Los Angeles appears on screen, the close-up shots all look familiar, but the establishing shots are all of somewhere else.*
(*This is becoming even more true of Vancouver, apparently, where many lower-cost TV shows are filmed.)
Yes, yes, plenty of TV shows and films do shoot in New York, and plenty of movies are set in LA. But there is something eerie about visiting LA and recognizing so many places that you first “saw” be somewhere else.