• Colloidal@programming.dev
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    9 hours ago

    Stop gatekeeping tourism. “Oh, if you don’t live in each city of each country for at least a week, are you even outside your home?” Who TF you think has money for that? People will choose what they want to see. If they stay in one or two cities, they haven’t seen enough. If they run through 10 countries in 12 days, it was only a shallow visit. Who can win? Fuck off with that bullshit.

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      Traveling [place] implies you’re seeing a large enough portion of it to be representative to all of [place]. That’s what this is making fun of. Nobody says ‘im travelling the US’ when theyre just going to NYC and Florida. At most they’d say they’re going TO the US. That’s just what those respective phrasings imply. The meme isn’t ripping on not travelling or not travelling everywhere.

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        8 hours ago

        I just said people will go to where they want to go. Did I fucking stutter?

        If they want to go to Paris instead of the just as romantic Prague, you don’t get a say in it. None of your business.

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            4 hours ago

            And people will start listening when said opinions pays their mortgage. Until then “lol, no” will be your answer.

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        people don’t get to do many overseas vacations. Makes sense they would want to go to the best countries first? Yes every country is unique beautiful and people are interesting and if someone can afford to keep exploring, it’s endless delight. but Italy, France, Spain are not deemed the best for no reason. It’s because they genuinely are

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          idk i think “best” is doing rather a lot of work here. smaller countries can be quite interesting and hospitable as well. i quite enjoyed my time in finland personally

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            i emphasized several times that other countries can also be interesting and enjoyable and terrific. Does not mean one is not much better. You might choose to go to Finland if you’ve already visited Italy but, again, not everyone can afford multiple trips, even over the course of their lifetime. And when you can only choose one, you don’t start with niche. Very few people would pass on visiting many different places, it’s just that most people don’t have that option

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    11 hours ago

    No different than European tourists “traveling the US” visiting a couple of big cities and maybe the Grand Canyon on a stop in between.

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      Agreed from New Jersey. I was fortunate enough to go with a friend whose family is all from Portugal, in Furadurao or however it’s spelled, I dunno. But did Lisboa, Porto, stopped at the home of the oldest brothers in Portugal (at the time). Was fed much portwine at every home we stopped at, and ate bread with melted cheese in it that I’ve been chasing for the last 15 years since we were there.

      I’m fortunate to be from Jersey for many reasons, but one of them is the huge Portuguese population we have and the cooking they brought with them.

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    11 hours ago

    People rip on Americans like this because they don’t know we get 10 days off a year and have to pay $20,000 for the ambulance.

    This is the only type of Euro Trip we can afford to take.

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      Strange, because eastern Europe is a lot cheaper to travel than France, Italy or the UK. Those are some of the most expensive countries actually.

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        11 hours ago

        Flying there from the US is more expensive and Americans generally don’t want to see Eastern Europe.

        More cost, less benefit.

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    13 hours ago

    This thread is just massive gatekeeping 🤣

    So many angry nerds people care mostly about food and shopping.

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    For a more accurate map, erase everything south of Rome, including Sicily, as well as Corsica and Sardinia. At the northern end of things, probably also Ireland and Scotland.
    Then make four new tiny islands and name them Barcelona, Munich, Amsterdam and Prague.