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As a potential tourist or traveller (I am not to be fair), I wouldn't risk travelling to the US. I'm not sure if there are actual tourists who feel the same, bu

As a potential tourist or traveller (I am not to be fair), I wouldn't risk travelling to the US. I'm not sure if there are actual tourists who feel the same, but I'm sure there are other avoiding the US.

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- nandemo 11y ago
  Can't you just refuse? Or can the police/DEA forcibly search a random person's belongings without a warrant?
mindo 11y ago
Personaly the more I read the less I'm interested to ever go to US. I admit, it's partly because of gun control (absence of it), police burtality and twisted laws, but at the same time I don't even know a single place I would to visit in US...
- yc1010 11y ago
  I have traveled thru' most of the lower 48 states on several occasions, and have to say these were the most memorable trips of my life (I am from Ireland). I have been to all of Europe + some of middle east & far east & latin america, but the US does stand out when I look back with great food, nice people, and amazing wide open spaces and scenery and never got in trouble with law, tho I can imagine it happening (for example: I was constantly warned bye people to stay under speed limit , while in Ireland it is more of a guideline!), since socially the US is a tinderbox about to explode, which is obvious if you ever endup in a wrong part of any town. As for places to visit, where to start! Grand Canyon, White Sands, Las Vegas, LA, Appalachian Trail, Space Coast, Yosemite, San Francisco, Oregon, Savannah, DC, Key West, Texas.... shit the list goes on... now that I think of it the scale of the country and being able to drive everywhere is simply breathtaking, I have traveled thru more of the US than most Americans I spoke to and to be honest yee guys have a great country populated by mostly friendly and nice people. Yes I realize there must be exceptions, but I never got into any trouble travelling the breath and length of the US, and would recommend it to anyone, hell I be back in a few months for more :)
maze-le 11y ago
I can tell you, there are a lot of people that 'feel the same'. I know of people even avoiding business-trips to the US (more because of invasive TSA-practices, and seized laptops and hard drives, than civil asset forfeiture).
wil421 11y ago
Don't believe the hype. I've been searched more times on busses in Costa Rica and Nicaragua than I have ever been searched in the U.S. Lived in the U.S. for 29 years and only been patted down or searched by police a handful of times while entering a Govt building or a Concert. I agree issues need to be addressed but it's not a police state. The media likes to portray it differently.
father_of_two 11y ago
Ditto. We have been hearing so many negative things about the US that it really scares even to think going there, being it as a tourist, on business, whatever.
strictnein 11y ago
Whenever I'm overseas I try to watch whatever local news is available, plus channels like BBC and Russia Today (yes, I know, not great, but RT is entertaining). The portrayal of the US on the news is so out of whack with reality that it's really kind of depressing. Reporting bad news out of the US seems to be a hobby of the world's media, as does misreporting our politics and social issues. I've worked for foreign companies whose workers would come over for 6-12 months and would enjoy themselves here greatly. Plus, like any tech worker, I work with a lot of H1Bs and first generation immigrants who have very little negative to say about the US and are also quite happy with things. Anecdotal, I know, but so is what you're reading here and seeing in your media. Anyways, I'm biased (obviously), and have probably written more than anyone cared to read, but I'd still recommend visiting someday. Avoid the urban centers (they don't differ much) and visit our national parks. Places like Yosemite [0] and the Grand Canyon [1] are breathtaking. For some of my former colleagues, just visiting places like Idaho or Utah, where they could be miles and miles away from the nearest person, was enjoyable, as that was something they could never experience back home (and those states are beautiful as well). And if you want to be really alone, visit Alaska. [0] http://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm http://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm [1] http://www.nps.gov/grca/index.htm http://www.nps.gov/grca/index.htm
- Zigurd 11y ago
  Your viewpoint is just very difficult to understand. You can't build a great nation on parks. The US has slid to mediocre rankings by many measures. We're #1 at hardly anything anymore. Except maybe the use of big foam fingers that claim we are. That degreades the quality of life here. If we don't fix that stuff, it will be China's world sooner, while they are still a one-party authoritarian state, rather than later, to give their middle class time to express their political discontents. And on top all that, hitting the update button multiple times because it didn't apparently do anything and then finding you have three copies of your post is a leading cause of desperate people turning to needle drugs.
  - strictnein 11y ago
    There weren't three copies of my post. Maybe your browser puked on itself? I wasn't talking about how great the nation is. I was discussing how it's a nice place to visit. It's like you read some other post, because I was simply saying the most interesting places to visit in the US may be the least populated. Not in the mood to discuss various rankings and their issues. Completely unrelated to anything I wrote. Have a good one.
kowdermeister 11y ago
I felt the same, then I reassured myself that I'm more exposed to these news, because simply they are outrageous thus they go viral. No wonder 100 million tweets don't go viral featuring content like "I waked the dog again" or "Ouch, my nail broke".

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nandemo 11y ago
Can't you just refuse? Or can the police/DEA forcibly search a random person's belongings without a warrant?

mindo 11y ago

Personaly the more I read the less I'm interested to ever go to US. I admit, it's partly because of gun control (absence of it), police burtality and twisted laws, but at the same time I don't even know a single place I would to visit in US...

yc1010 11y ago
I have traveled thru' most of the lower 48 states on several occasions, and have to say these were the most memorable trips of my life (I am from Ireland). I have been to all of Europe + some of middle east & far east & latin america, but the US does stand out when I look back with great food, nice people, and amazing wide open spaces and scenery and never got in trouble with law, tho I can imagine it happening (for example: I was constantly warned bye people to stay under speed limit , while in Ireland it is more of a guideline!), since socially the US is a tinderbox about to explode, which is obvious if you ever endup in a wrong part of any town. As for places to visit, where to start! Grand Canyon, White Sands, Las Vegas, LA, Appalachian Trail, Space Coast, Yosemite, San Francisco, Oregon, Savannah, DC, Key West, Texas.... shit the list goes on... now that I think of it the scale of the country and being able to drive everywhere is simply breathtaking, I have traveled thru more of the US than most Americans I spoke to and to be honest yee guys have a great country populated by mostly friendly and nice people. Yes I realize there must be exceptions, but I never got into any trouble travelling the breath and length of the US, and would recommend it to anyone, hell I be back in a few months for more :)

maze-le 11y ago

I can tell you, there are a lot of people that 'feel the same'. I know of people even avoiding business-trips to the US (more because of invasive TSA-practices, and seized laptops and hard drives, than civil asset forfeiture).

wil421 11y ago

Don't believe the hype. I've been searched more times on busses in Costa Rica and Nicaragua than I have ever been searched in the U.S. Lived in the U.S. for 29 years and only been patted down or searched by police a handful of times while entering a Govt building or a Concert. I agree issues need to be addressed but it's not a police state. The media likes to portray it differently.

father_of_two 11y ago

Ditto. We have been hearing so many negative things about the US that it really scares even to think going there, being it as a tourist, on business, whatever.

strictnein 11y ago

Whenever I'm overseas I try to watch whatever local news is available, plus channels like BBC and Russia Today (yes, I know, not great, but RT is entertaining). The portrayal of the US on the news is so out of whack with reality that it's really kind of depressing. Reporting bad news out of the US seems to be a hobby of the world's media, as does misreporting our politics and social issues. I've worked for foreign companies whose workers would come over for 6-12 months and would enjoy themselves here greatly. Plus, like any tech worker, I work with a lot of H1Bs and first generation immigrants who have very little negative to say about the US and are also quite happy with things. Anecdotal, I know, but so is what you're reading here and seeing in your media. Anyways, I'm biased (obviously), and have probably written more than anyone cared to read, but I'd still recommend visiting someday. Avoid the urban centers (they don't differ much) and visit our national parks. Places like Yosemite [0] and the Grand Canyon [1] are breathtaking. For some of my former colleagues, just visiting places like Idaho or Utah, where they could be miles and miles away from the nearest person, was enjoyable, as that was something they could never experience back home (and those states are beautiful as well). And if you want to be really alone, visit Alaska. [0] http://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm http://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm [1] http://www.nps.gov/grca/index.htm http://www.nps.gov/grca/index.htm

Zigurd 11y ago
Your viewpoint is just very difficult to understand. You can't build a great nation on parks. The US has slid to mediocre rankings by many measures. We're #1 at hardly anything anymore. Except maybe the use of big foam fingers that claim we are. That degreades the quality of life here. If we don't fix that stuff, it will be China's world sooner, while they are still a one-party authoritarian state, rather than later, to give their middle class time to express their political discontents. And on top all that, hitting the update button multiple times because it didn't apparently do anything and then finding you have three copies of your post is a leading cause of desperate people turning to needle drugs.
- strictnein 11y ago
  There weren't three copies of my post. Maybe your browser puked on itself? I wasn't talking about how great the nation is. I was discussing how it's a nice place to visit. It's like you read some other post, because I was simply saying the most interesting places to visit in the US may be the least populated. Not in the mood to discuss various rankings and their issues. Completely unrelated to anything I wrote. Have a good one.

kowdermeister 11y ago

I felt the same, then I reassured myself that I'm more exposed to these news, because simply they are outrageous thus they go viral. No wonder 100 million tweets don't go viral featuring content like "I waked the dog again" or "Ouch, my nail broke".