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I'm mostly a beginner and still figuring grammar out. I was wondering if

**(location)に (object)を さがしたほうがいい**

would be a grammatically correct format for a rough translation of "you should
search for x here" in casual speech. for example,

**ウールマートに りんごを さがしたほうがいい**

Thanks!
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How to say "you should search for x here"
In everyday conversations, the location marker for the verb 「探{さが}す」 is 「で」
rather than 「に」.

Using 「に」 is not incorrect, but it surely would make the sentence sound
(unnecessarily) literary, old-fashioned, poetic, etc. Thus, I would not
recommend that you use 「に」 in your sentence **unless you actually intend to
use it for your own aesthetic reasons**.

I would say:

> 「ウォルマート **で** リンゴをさがしたほうがいい。」

FYI, the verbs that take 「に」 as their usual location-marker include:

住{す}む (to live)、いる (to be, to exit)、滞在{たいざい}する (to stay), etc. These are all
**_stative_** verbs.

「探{さが}す」 ("to look for") is too "active" an action to take 「に」 except for the
special cases explained above.
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