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地方 in a sentence


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A conversation goes like this:

 

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A: 对这儿生活习惯了吗?

B: 差不多已经习惯了,不过有的地方还不太习惯。

A: 什么地方不习惯?

B: 我每天早上都不能吃早饭

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What does 地方 mean in "不过有的地方还不太习惯"sentence? I thought it meant 'region/place/room/area', but that doesn't make sense in the above sentence.

If I try to translate it: 

差不多已经习惯了,不过有的地方还不太习惯。

"I've already almost got used to it (life), only the place i'm not yet too used to."

This wouldn't be so weird, if B's next answer  "我每天早上都不能吃早饭" wasn't completely unrelated to 地方。

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地方 can often be thought of as "locations/parts/arenas of one's life" and is quite often used in this way when talking about livelihood or customs, more so than "东西" which I'd consider an error, or 点 which I'd think of as adding a slightly literary or even polemic flavour (which I personally don't consider an error!). You can think of 地方 as "aspect", although in colloquial English, people would probably say "things" I suppose.

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Yeah, think of it as having a more abstract meaning here, more "parts" than "places". There are still problems "in some places" or "in some parts", and it does not refer to physical places, but some parts of your life.

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