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The same situation for people visiting the US and they only ever go to some major US city like New York City or Los Angeles. Visit some place that's more than 1
by mlindner 4y ago
The same situation for people visiting the US and they only ever go to some major US city like New York City or Los Angeles. Visit some place that's more than 100 miles from the ocean and isn't an urban downtown center.
- Trasmatta 4y agoIf you're only going to one US city though, it might as well be NYC.
- oska 4y agoI've known practically all my life that I never want to visit NYC. I would like to visit a city like Pittsburgh though, or Charleston, or Milwaukee (and other US cities and towns smaller than these three too).
- Trasmatta 4y agoNYC is an amazing place. What about it makes you want to never visit?
- oska 4y agoNever attracted me and the aesthetics of the city and its surrounding immediate environment put me off. (I would still like to visit other parts of New York state though.) There's a weirdness to the city, at least how I see it from afar and, to be fair, I'm sure in a somewhat distorted manner through media. Movies and TV shows set there put me off (even Seinfeld which I enjoy). Only The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill and The Chosen by Chaim Potok have shown me some charm in the place, and the music of New York native Suzanne Vega. I appreciate that it's an important city, has many cultural attractions and many people love the place. But for me it's too big, too chaotic and, as I say above, too weird, and I would prefer to stay away from it entirely.
- amrocha 4y agoHard disagree. Most US cities outside the coasts are awful places to visit. What's someone gonna do in Phoenix or Denver?
- mantas 4y agoExperience what the US actually is? Traveling should be about experience the local reality, not cherry picking.
- amrocha 4y agoThe coast is what the US actually is. There's more people on the coasts than not. I truly don't understand where the idea that the coasts aren't the "real" US comes from. They're more real than some city nobody moves to in a state barely anyone lives in.
- mantas 4y agoThe real US is the mix of both coasts and in-between. If you see the coasts only, then you don't experience real US. Only few cherry picked bits. It's like going to London and Paris and claiming you have seen „real“ Europe. No, it was just few cherry picked non-representative bits.
- amrocha 4y agoNo it isn't. 40% of the US lives on the coast, which means well over 50% are within 100 miles of a coast. It would be like going to most of Europe, and then someone complaining you didn't see the "real" Europe because you skipped Portugal and Croatia.
- mantas 4y agoThere's a big difference between going to NYC and LA vs visiting small towns close to coast. And visiting a one-sided 50% is still missing a big portion. That's like saying that if you visit Germany/France/UK, you've seen all the europe. Nordics and East be damned because it's less than 50% of population so who cares. But then you end up with very skewed view of what europe is.
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- wyclif 4y agoAll the Filipinos I meet here say if they could go to the US, the first place they would go is Las Vegas. I tell them, "that's the last place you should go in the US, it's just a tourist trap" but it took me a while to figure out that culturally, they want the tourist trap experience and would prefer Vegas, LA, or NYC to someplace like Bozeman MT, Estes Park CO, Beaufort SC, or <pick your most beautiful town in the US>.