<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishAlipowaambia watu kwamba alitaka, baada ya kukulia katika eneo la Magharibi ya Kati, kuishi kwa muda katika mojawapo ya miji maridadi zaidi duniani, hawakuamini waziwazi - hawakuwa wamewahi kwenda Prague, na inaonekana hawakujua kuhusu usanifu wake wa kihistoria.  <response>: When he dropped the ill-received jocularity to say that he had wanted, having grown up in the Midwest, to live awhile in one of the worlds most beautiful cities, they were openly disbelieving--they had never been to Prague of course, and apparently, they did not know of its architectural splendors, either. 