• theblips@lemm.ee
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    Any of the Disneys. Just screams consoomer to me and I risk running into a Disney adult

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        I use to be a huge Disney theme park fan, but the increasing nickle and dining throughout the years has really turned me off. I still deeply appreciate and admire the architecture and artistry of the parks, but I am not a fan of the direction of the company as a whole tbh.

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    Don’t know if it’s a holiday destination, but Dubai. Heat and shopping malls are two things I’d pay to get away from.

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      Yep that’s somewhere that’s just never interested me. I hate shopping malls and being too hot so paying money to suffer it isn’t me

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      Same same. I so not want to visit an extremely hot mall where I might also be thrown in jail for being female and existing wrong. Sounds like a bad time even if everything goes fine!

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      I also hate extreme heat and shopping malls, and have been to Dubai numerous times. The heat and hypercapitalism were horrible, but the city itself was fascinating (to me). The last time I was there it was 52°C. I must say, the novelty wore off on that trip.

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    Turkish resorts. They are mostly in places where people were taken in bunches to the sea and thrown off board just a bit more than 100 years ago. And anything Turkish tbh. Oh yes, there is a lot of friendliness of the “oh so your ancestors are from Ispir, mine too, I have friends in Ispir, come visit” kind. It feels mind-bending, because it’s always orthogonal to whether the person saying it thinks that genocide is, you know, not okay.

    I would probably want to see the less tourist (less inhabited honestly) parts, where villagers follow you with suspicious looks.

    Various despotic monarchies attracting scammers and whores. That is, I’d probably be interested to take a look, but the fact that there are places where you can be jailed arbitrarily technically doesn’t instill confidence.

    Israel. Being part Jewish too, I’d kinda feel like complicit in evil. I’ve felt that once, don’t want to repeat yet.

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      Basically, anything Israeli and Turkish because they won’t admit their genocide.

      What about Japan?

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        Not because they won’t admit it, but because they won’t unpair their core identities from it.

        For the same reason Japan has options, while these two don’t.

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      the evening-/nightlife was pretty cool. all those toscanian like alleys (similar to lucca for example) inbetween houses and lots of - i mean lotslots - 10000/10 restaurants filled with locals

      EDIT lots of locals are students too, which makes a far more interesting crowd in general imo

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    Dubai, most of the Middle East, China, most of the deep south in the US, and any other states or countries like Singapore with shit like beatings or the death penalty.

    If Singapore ever relaxes its use of beatings and executions, I would consider going, as it has beautiful gardens and amazing green infrastructure.

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      Honestly, Singapore might just be the most boring bland place you could possibly go to. If it was your first time travelling overseas it might be good, and my experiences there have never been bad per se, but discounting places where I’d be afraid for safety, I can’t think of a single place I’d recommend less than Singapore for someone to visit.

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      There is lots in Bali that is bogan free. I too hate the idea of bogans on holidays. I was quite skeptical of my first Bali trip, but loved it and have been back a few times, most recently with young kids. Even Kuta is quite family oriented these days instead of drunk bogan central.

      It’s got a great mix of good weather, cheap, cultural sites and sights, beaches, boozy stuff (if wanted), relaxing forests, volcanic cycling, zoos, butterfly gardens, temples etc. I go to GC or an Fijian island and I’d be bored in comparison.

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        Not good, most people live paycheck to paycheck. High unemploynent rate when not summer because we only have jobs in tourist season which is summer. If you aren’t living in a bigger city 0 public transport.

        If you live in smaller cities/countryside you will most likelly be forced to drive at minimum 10km to closest store’s, or 60+km to closest er and 100+ km to any decent hospital that’s any good.

        And let me not starting about the fact we adopted euro recently and the inflation which mak£s us try to survive on 850 euro wage with 500 euro rent and food costs where just one day trip to the store will eat up 25 euro minimally.

        As a tourist atraction croatia is amazing, but as a place to live in it’s not unless you are lucky and came from outside the balkans, in chich case you can thrive in the country as shown by a lot of americans who come ti live in Croatia after living on high wage jobs there and having expendable money ( average yearly income here barelly passes 12k euro last time I checked ).