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Answered yes to all of those? Then this might be your solution…

Local naming conventions

If you’re running vagrant and browsersync, avoid naming your project something.local as this conflicts with OSX’s bonjour scanning, which gives .local to your mac by default.

Renaming your local environment to .dev stops any conflicts from occurring and allows browsersync to run blazingly fast. Seriously.