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Most of the people against travel on the grounds of it being bad for the environment are also the same people that shit on others for being less educated about other places than them.
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Meanwhile their education comes from Wikipedia on those places instead of actually going there.
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Tourism in general is a very hollow experience. Go to tourist trap, stand in lines, take the same photo as everyone else, shuffle to the next one. "The food." It's sold as a big amazing experience but it's really not true and in turn it makes places unliveable for people who actually want to live there.
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And the same people who are bewildered by all those strange rectangles on the ground in flyover country.
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There's a big difference between "industrial tourism" (for lack of a better term) and visiting a country for its various benefits. I've been lucky enough to have family abroad that I visited and it was wonderful. However I'd never want the amusement park equivalent of visiting a country, which is what a lot of tourism boils down to.
People should just do their own research and plan accordingly if they don't have a local to show them around.
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Tourist traps are overrated, but if there's a 1,200 year old castle, temple, or something like that in the area, I'm going to go see it. My advice is to avoid the trap part and just focus on experiencing whatever you're there to see. If there's a guide, I'm listening to them to learn something interesting about the place. I don't bother taking pictures because it's impossible to get a good one with all of the people, and if I really want some, there's probably a photo set or some book in a gift shop (or being sold by enterprising locals) that has professional photos taken when the place was empty. If you aren't wasting time trying to take a picture, you can spent it taking in the place you're there to see.
If you're there with someone local or can meet up with someone you know who is local, do so and go see the surrounding area instead of staying in the city. Cities will always be the blandest parts of any country. You'll learn a lot more about a country if you see the places off the beaten path and talk with the people who are just average run of the mill folk. Try to find a local bar (or equivalent) where there's live music or some kind of local culture. Even if you don't understand the language, you can still enjoy the experience and even if you don't speak the local language, you'll probably run into someone there who speaks a little bit of English that you can converse with.
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What a strange article. I am wholly unsurprised that its author is an autist woman in her 30s. I have seen criticism of “travel” come from that demographic for a while. I recall a sketch made several years ago by CollegeHumor? Buzzfeed? I can’t remember, they’re all pretty similar. The sketch poked fun at a well-traveled woman and implied such people are out of touch users with more money than sense. It smacked of bitterness and envy.
It makes sense to me that people who don’t see the value in travel also don’t see the value in freedom of movement on the whole.
It makes sense to me that people who don’t see the value in travel also don’t see the value in freedom of movement on the whole.
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I am all in favor of city dwellers being restricted from owning and driving cars. Make them take the tour bus out to my area instead of 30 cars, every one of them going around a corner on the road and slamming on their brakes when they see cows in a field.
Also, if you don't live here then you can't bring your bicycle, public transit only.
I think it's only fair.
Also, if you don't live here then you can't bring your bicycle, public transit only.
I think it's only fair.
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Young people used to be able to go to Europe on a part time work Visa and work at a bar, restaurant or other service industry place (get to do the touristy things while also living there for 1-2 years). Now good luck doing the same thing as most of those jobs are now taken up by nepotistic Pajeets and Arabs who only hire their own.
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What pisses me off is these fucks grossly overestimate how much people travel. In their minds everyone is like them and flies to the Bahamas for Vacation or take summer retreats in France or Italy or go on some Mediterranean cruise. But of course no one normal can afford that lifestyle and instead they just want to make it more difficult for everyone else. Just like those rich fucks all bitching about pollution while flying around in wasteful private jets.
And yes, part of my hatred for these assholes is my envy that they waste time in fucking tourist trap places for social media photos and shit instead of actually seeing the culture and country they are visiting. I'd much rather go to some random ass Guatemalan village full of Mayans than whatever big fucking city they have down there.
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Looks like tyranny really does want the "little people" imprisoned in
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Take away their guns and then their cars and other rides, you can easily shove them into slave labor camps.
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I saw this posted in one of the image threads and I wish this was a real thing so r/fuckcars would have an aneurysm over it lol
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It’s a response to this piece of AI art that was being shared around urbanist circles:
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Imagine the Smell.
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Doesn't seem very bike lane friendly.
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These people would make shit like 4 hour road trips illegal if they could. It's either ride the train from City 10 to City 17 or nothing, citizen.
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Ah, Buc-ee's. The large footprint of the gas stations and their parking lot (700-1000 spaces) should cause screeching if they saw that in a meme somewhere.
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The power of the all mighty Texan Beaver makes any and all of these bug hive urbanist seethes with pure unhinged rage.
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It's a New Yorker article, the contrarianism and sophistry are necessary in order to be published. A straightforward defense of commercialized travel and having 'spiritual awakenings' while in Bali aren't in the cards.
I don't know where people are getting that bugmen are against travel, they LOVE it. Urbanist bugmen are always talking about when they went to some crumbling Euro city that was WALKABLE and how they RENTED A BIKE and how they want their home to be JUST LIKE IT. Where they clash with travel is either through eco-snobbery or cultural snobbery (going to waterpark BAD going to some dirty shithole country to see unga bunga shamans GOOD) There are few more loathsome creatures than the UMC white shitlib woman who lectures you about how the world works at the wise old age of 22 because she's travelled, you see, her eyes are open to the truth of it all.