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Personally, I no longer understand the attractiveness of travelling. It is nothing but stress, fatigue, confusion, waiting, queuing, no sleep, overpriced EVER

Personally, I no longer understand the attractiveness of travelling. It is nothing but stress, fatigue, confusion, waiting, queuing, no sleep, overpriced EVERYTHING, Airplane cow class is mild middleclass torture, (1st world torture?) Due to height, I cannot find a single comfortable position in a 0 class airplane chair. I am not even particularly tall. I do admit to unhealthy jealousy when I see people who fit well and go to sleep. For me its trapped, uncomfortable, noisy, shitty food, rude co travelers, for 12 hours. I usually bring a couple of paper books, but there are only so many consecutive hours I can spend reading. Paper books rule because you dont have to power them down, worry about running out of power, dont weigh much. and I can find space for it on the flip down tray. I have never been able to fit a laptop on that tray, much less have enough space for my arms and hands to type away. And that is before I even get to my ultimate destination. More often than not the hotel rooms are quite uncomfortable compared to home. (and that is spending $$ on a "western style" hotel room). That said it may be a function of age and being on the spectrum. The frustrating thing for me is that travelling has become a form of status building / making oneself interesting. I am back on dating sites again and it pains me that travelling is still on top of most profiles' priorities. I was last on about 12 years ago and the profiles look very much the same. Working from home is my favorite place.

988747 4y ago
For me the main reason for this type of lifestyle is the fact that I dislike cold weather. When winter comes to my country, I'd rather move to Canary Islands or somewhere else where temperature is still in the 70s. Sightseeing, which I do mostly on weekends, is just a bonus. Also, my trips are relatively short (max 5 hours on a plane), and I do not change countries often.
- bennyelv 4y ago
  That is exactly what I do. A month in the Canary Islands in January breaks up the winter and makes it a tiny bit more bearable. I do it for 3 if I wasn’t having to double my accommodation costs (mortgage + Airbnb) for the duration.
enlyth 4y ago
98% of online dating profiles these days: >I like dogs, travelling and eating food in restaurants Wow, such a great showcase of your unique and quirky personality!
- freemrkt8 4y ago
  Wow, trite cynicism on social media for others; such a great showcase of your unique and quirky personality. Social media is an open sewer of low effort demands of the world to serve individual sensibilities, revealing the apes are not as civil and inclusive as their philosophy has lead them to believe. I love it.
malux85 4y ago
When people say they enjoy travelling, they mean they enjoy the destination - I don’t think anybody enjoys the plane ride. If you’re going to focus on the plane ride and the expensive hotel, I can see why you don’t enjoy it. I enjoy travelling because it means seeing how other cultures work, how they had different governance systems throughout history, different ethics, different music, different food, attitudes to money, cuisines, literature, humour, and definitions of beauty. Then there’s the people, go on a few dates, fall in love (or just a short term lust thing), different cultures produce vastly different forms of love and intimacy, from different physical beauty to different interaction dynamics. Ive see construction that’s 1500 years old, painting that are 1000 years old, spa pools filled with wine, music with instruments that I’ve never heard before, a smile from a man who doesn’t know who he is, free food from a street vendor who I just made laugh with a dark joke, a volleyball game on a Spanish beach and the sun on my face in a lush green park in Berlin. That’s why I like travelling
serjester 4y ago
To each their own. Traveling isn’t about the act of traveling, that’s miserable for almost everyone, it’s about breaking out of your routine. Sounds like that’s precisely why you don’t enjoy it? Nothing wrong with that. Personally I’ve had some of the most interesting conversations of my life on overnight trains, in random bars and in far flung corners of the world. I can’t imagine my life without it.
- ThinkBeat 4y ago
  I rewrote this a couple of times because I am trying to not come out as a put down. It is not intended that way. I am just curious. Everyone lives in a bubble of some sort most of the time. Work, family, friends, sports, Do you think then that most people who are interesting can be found on trains and obscure bars in far off places? Or just that the "bubble" that is your more daily life just isn't conducive to meeting interesting people closer to home? Or it might be that you meet people with some of the same priorities as yourself when you do meet follow travelers.
  - serjester 4y ago
    People with radically different life experiences tend to be interesting. Traveling, by definition, makes you more likely to run into those kind of people. My last trip took me to Georgia. As someone that immigrated from Russia as a child, meeting Russians that are debating a similar decision today was eye opening - they have the same hopes, dreams and fears that we had 20 years ago. In the US, I’ve never felt understood in that respect. This is one of many. I can’t imagine my life without those experiences.

988747 4y ago

For me the main reason for this type of lifestyle is the fact that I dislike cold weather. When winter comes to my country, I'd rather move to Canary Islands or somewhere else where temperature is still in the 70s. Sightseeing, which I do mostly on weekends, is just a bonus. Also, my trips are relatively short (max 5 hours on a plane), and I do not change countries often.

bennyelv 4y ago
That is exactly what I do. A month in the Canary Islands in January breaks up the winter and makes it a tiny bit more bearable. I do it for 3 if I wasn’t having to double my accommodation costs (mortgage + Airbnb) for the duration.

enlyth 4y ago

98% of online dating profiles these days: >I like dogs, travelling and eating food in restaurants Wow, such a great showcase of your unique and quirky personality!

freemrkt8 4y ago
Wow, trite cynicism on social media for others; such a great showcase of your unique and quirky personality. Social media is an open sewer of low effort demands of the world to serve individual sensibilities, revealing the apes are not as civil and inclusive as their philosophy has lead them to believe. I love it.

malux85 4y ago

When people say they enjoy travelling, they mean they enjoy the destination - I don’t think anybody enjoys the plane ride. If you’re going to focus on the plane ride and the expensive hotel, I can see why you don’t enjoy it. I enjoy travelling because it means seeing how other cultures work, how they had different governance systems throughout history, different ethics, different music, different food, attitudes to money, cuisines, literature, humour, and definitions of beauty. Then there’s the people, go on a few dates, fall in love (or just a short term lust thing), different cultures produce vastly different forms of love and intimacy, from different physical beauty to different interaction dynamics. Ive see construction that’s 1500 years old, painting that are 1000 years old, spa pools filled with wine, music with instruments that I’ve never heard before, a smile from a man who doesn’t know who he is, free food from a street vendor who I just made laugh with a dark joke, a volleyball game on a Spanish beach and the sun on my face in a lush green park in Berlin. That’s why I like travelling

serjester 4y ago

To each their own. Traveling isn’t about the act of traveling, that’s miserable for almost everyone, it’s about breaking out of your routine. Sounds like that’s precisely why you don’t enjoy it? Nothing wrong with that. Personally I’ve had some of the most interesting conversations of my life on overnight trains, in random bars and in far flung corners of the world. I can’t imagine my life without it.

ThinkBeat 4y ago
I rewrote this a couple of times because I am trying to not come out as a put down. It is not intended that way. I am just curious. Everyone lives in a bubble of some sort most of the time. Work, family, friends, sports, Do you think then that most people who are interesting can be found on trains and obscure bars in far off places? Or just that the "bubble" that is your more daily life just isn't conducive to meeting interesting people closer to home? Or it might be that you meet people with some of the same priorities as yourself when you do meet follow travelers.
- serjester 4y ago
  People with radically different life experiences tend to be interesting. Traveling, by definition, makes you more likely to run into those kind of people. My last trip took me to Georgia. As someone that immigrated from Russia as a child, meeting Russians that are debating a similar decision today was eye opening - they have the same hopes, dreams and fears that we had 20 years ago. In the US, I’ve never felt understood in that respect. This is one of many. I can’t imagine my life without those experiences.