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Then there is the USA, where the capital hardly breaks the ranks of the top 5 most exciting destinations. Disclaimer... DC is my hometown so I am blase about a

• isostatic 10y ago
  Sure, but that's because the US has so much spread out. In the UK, almost everything internationally interesting is in London. Sure there's "Scotland" (a day trip to edinburgh), "Shakespereland" (day trip to Stratford on Avon), "Beatlesland" (day trip to Liverpool), and maybe Stonehenge (day trip to Salisbury) but the majority of things are in London. The Lake District or Scottish highlands are good, but you get mountains and lakes all over the world. In the US the capital is Washington, and that's interesting to some extend, but you've got the big tier cities - NY and LA, and the next tier of touristy cities like Philly/Boston (for 'history'), San Francisco, Vegas and maybe Seattle and Chicago. If you were to have the historical, financial, political and entertainment capital all in Washington, which is what you have with France, UK, Sweden etc, then that would be a far more exciting destination than just the political capital.
• BurningFrog 10y ago
  That is actually one of the things I love about the US, that the political capital doesn't (yet?) monopolize all the good stuff!