Travelling is pretty much overrated

poor cunt

>>66318543

http://i.imgur.com/HdXs3.jpg


Why?

>>66318578
your house?

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>>66318578
The fuck??

>>66318543
american's almost never travel. When we travel, its a huge deal to us, because we almost never leave the country. and we can't just walk to another country or even drive to one except canada.

>>66318752
Well, Australia is pretty much the opposite
Everyone take at least 4 to 6 weeks off a year to travel oversea.
There is a real "societal" pressure to travel as much as possible before your 30's

I don't think it's overrated. I have some of my strongest memories from traveling and meeting new people. So long as you understand that you're just getting a rose tinted glimpse of the country and aren't experiencing life like a local, then it's not harmful.

Staying in some resort in Fiji for a week is overrated, but discovering new sights for yourself and having an adventure is a valuable experience. It all really depends where you go.

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>>66318729
These are the cockroach eggs where the larvae get out.

I've been to about 70 countries. I had some of the best times of my life just travelling, doing crazy shit, having fun and fucking exotic women. I've had enough now, except for travel for study/work which I still do a lot of.

>>66318786
which is where our difference is, most american's never travel, the i don't known 10-20% that do travel for like a week to another country, get a huge experience from it.

Hell, lots of american's don't travel or leave their state for very long.

I've never left the country and out of 50 states I've only been to 3

So if we seem obnoxious from traveling, were just excited. It means a lot to us.

>>66318834
Just have the feeling that lots a people consume their experience through excess during travel... On top of that the country checklist seems unhealthy and unsustainable

>tfw I'm almost 25 & never left new england
>probably never will because I'm not a rich aussie

>>66318871
I get that...
But here we reach the stage (at work for ex) when people take time off and decide to chill at home or in same state... Surrounding assume you have money problem

>>66318876
It all depends on what you want to get out of travelling. The party hostel type are the most obvious and most annoying, but there are many other ways to do it.

And if you don't want to travel, don't. I guess it depends on your headspace, I used to think travelling was the best thing possible but now I have a drive to do more constructive things, even though I really did learn a lot doing it. People change.

>>66318973
you want to loan me some money to travel my australian friend?

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is it travelling if you emigrate? I've lived in Ireland, America, England and will be moving to Hong Kong next year. I work full time in each country.

>>66318914
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This is the problem mate
People here take loan to travel or work for months while living with mum to do the same 6 weeks "Europe" tour as their mate...
There is a real obsession for "spending" your cash in flight fare and risks job opportunities

Well it depends on how you travel. I like to travel in a wide brimmed hat and walking stick walking from town to town until my destination.

>>66318543
Agreed.

It's an absolute negative for your wallet and at the end of the day, it doesn't profoundly change lives as popular opinion would have you believe.

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>>66319019
This is the gold ticket mate.
Potentially the most meaningful experience

>>66318543
>australian

Yeah, you're right. Stay in your shithole so I won't hear your bullshit IRL

>>66319063
Everyone ignoring the person in here who has travelled a shitload and would say it is live changing.

But sure, a good proportion of people just do it for instagram cred.

>>66319084
>Je te chie dans la bouche mon gars!

>>66319093
so would you say travelling the world to "find yourself" is not a meme?

>>66319093
Yeah sure
I think people make too much of a fuss over traveling. I mean, I do love traveling myself.
But I don’t think that it is always the best way to grow.

>>66319184
Nah, it worked for me. "Finding yourself" might be going a bit far, but it certainly gave me a new direction in life and gave me a massive education.

>>66319204
You're right, it definitely isn't a cure-all.

>>66319019
Are you that Russian working in IT field?

>>66318543
It depends on how you travel, if you spend your days on your own on tourist traps and resorts you might have something of a point. if you visit museums and places of real interest and use your leisure time to meet new people and actually talk then the experience can be fucking invaluable. Same as using the internet and wasting your time on porn and social media, what you get out depends on what you put in.

>>66319905

nope.

>>66318543
>plebeian who can't into Fernweh

>>66318543
>>66318543
Travelling is important so you can take selfies of you in exotic places to post it on Facebook and Instagram duh.

>>66318815
turkish eggs*

Travelling is fun. That's all - you can learn some new things along the way, much like life at home, just maybe at a faster rate. Instagram travelling a complete joke.
But is your life worth living if you show it through having a house?

>>66318752
This might be true if you live in a poor area.

>>66320053
>museums and places of real interest and use your leisure time to meet new people and actually talk
What, to you, does travelling have that the internet doesn't?

Basically all the information in museums is on wikipedia too, and more in-depth, and my finnish behaviour keeps me from talking to random people, so I'm better off memeing with others on the internet and doing the interpals.

>>66320889
this pretty much, for many people travel is just fun, I agree it's stupid to have big cultural pretentions. All those travel junkies just want to take some selfies of awesome and rare places.
I only travel with friends to disconnect from my work. Or travel to meet friends who are living in other countries.

>>66322329
Because it isn't the same to look at pictures of St Pietros or Il Duomo than to be there, same as porn isn't a substitute for sex, it's nuances, the environment, etc. How the fuck would you know what good Italian food is if you've never been in Italy?

As for making friends r hitting off with a girl, etc. I'm a Latin, what do you expect me to say? Hopeless autists aside, shy people here are the equivalent of extroverts in Europe. Even so you'd be a lot less shy if you did travel.

>>66322623
It depends, I've never travelled in the 9 countries in 7 days tours and rather prefer to spend a couple of weeks in a single city/region which gives me time to do both, but there's a time and a place for everything, I've traveled on just getting to know the nightlife of some places and I've also done small trips alone meant exclusively to relax and do the cultural thing, there's no one better way.

>>66322329
If its not for you then its not for you and that's that, but I honestly think it would do you a lot of good to get out of your comfort zone out here.

>>66319019
>Hong Kong

Don't senpai

>>66319019

Dont

I literally travel to get laid without the stigma of going to a brothel

>>66323162
Just go to the brothel on the town you dont live in.

>>66322946
>>66322966

sorry fampai

>>66323540
Doesn't feel like an accomplishment

>>66318543
It would probably be more meaningful if everywhere wasn't more or less the same.

>>66319184
Well it does at the very least make you indeed find yourself, as it will expose you to yourself and show you that it's not the environment that is the problem but yourself.

*goes to London for a week*

Wow, I really learned a lot about other cultures! It was nice to see how some other people live in the world, really helped me find myself xxx

>>66324336
>not going on a trip through south east Asia in flip flops and hemp pants wearing your 120l deuter backpack with steel reinforcement and taking drugs for a trip to your real inner self
It's like you're no even trying

>>66323984
there are places that are very different, but they're either degenerate shitholes or you risk getting your head chopped off if you don't praise the local god enough

>>66324029
>show you that it's not the environment that is the problem but yourself
this, travelling makes sense if you haven't acknowledged your problem

>>66324812
>there are places that are very different
Well, maybe if you go on a jungle expedition to Papua New Guinea or something, but other than that it is more or less the same.

I have never been to USA, but I have been to lots of places in Asia and most of Europe.

It depends. Do you travel for yourself, or do you travel to show that you travel?

The "finding yourself" meme us completely retarded and only rich women who traveled to India for a week believe this. But traveling is still really fun and will create some of the best memories in your life. And if you do shit like tour buses and groups then of course traveling will be no fun at all. Do research before you go, go by yourself or with a small group and enjoy your time there.

I'm no frequent traveler but I have left the country for 2 weeks twice and they've been the best and happiest times of my life.

>>66318578
>hurr durr average day in Turkey

>>66318752
This. Flights are rather expensive and we're geographically isolated.

>>66319021
As shitty as that sounds, my father did take a loan out for my mother to go to the UK with me on a school Spring Break trip, and we Americans do have an obsession with spending money on other stuff.

Last year I went to spain and italy with my brother and I honestly don't see what's the appeal of it. I don't know why people make such a big deal over travelling, it's bland as fuck.

I guess it's the same people who think that travelling will make other see you as more 'interestig' or 'culturally rich', the kind of faggots that put souvenirs you bought in other countries on the walls and shelves of their living room so everybody can see it.

As for myself, I don't feel like leaving my country ever again and besides I have more productive plans for my money.

>autistic shut ins who want to sit in their hotel and watch anime don't like traveling
Who would've guessed

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>>66318543
I agree wholeheartedly.

One's ability to travel abroad is entirely determined by one's social class. Whenever entitled upper middle class brats tell you how open minded all their luxury vacations all over the world has made them, they always push the implicit meaning that those who can't afford it are more "narrow minded", and thus not entitled to their own opinions to the same degree.

Depends how you travel, what you do there and whats your destination

>>66318543
Where have you been though?

I want to travel to have sex with different nationalities

>>66318871

Yeah that is true.

Personally, i travel a lot for my age. I'm 25 and travel internationally about twice a year. Every time I put in my vacation request it's such a "big deal" to others. They always say "Wow! You're going to Europe again?! That's incredible!"

To be fair, traveling as an American is really expensive. So most people (especially once you're married and have kids) can't afford it. And when it comes to younger people, most rather spend their money on nice cars or move out from home quickly, so they can't afford to travel

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OP your post refers to turbo normies who just aim to check of their bucketlist of the eiffel big ben and what not. so the fault isn't that their hobby is travelling. the problem is that they're boring people, so no matter what they in life they'd still be boring about it.

i went to some parts of the uk, france and austria alone (as an asian grill how 'bout that) and i really did do many exotic things i'd never experience if i never left my home country. i had a perfect 4chan romance (met a boy i knew from 4chan in europe, fell in love, lost our virgins. extremely autistically. i hope you're not reading this and blushing, faguette) and a literal anime-tier romance experience right when the sakura were in full bloom. how many normalfag travellers eat takoyaki with shoujo manga boys under cherry blossom trees?

i got drunk alone and pissed some people off, encountered fuccbois and fuccgirls, met racist people, met meme manlet weeaboo white men who came to japan to find a slanty pussy, and have funny as shit stories to tell people now. i met weirdos, i met creeps, i met nice people, i met super nice people, i met niggers, i met white trash, i met hobos, i met gypsys, i had old japanese grandmas come up to me in thick kansai ben i dont know wtf they were saying.

i mean, i am in fucking memeland japan right now.

so OP your life sucks because you're surrounded by boring people who travel in a boring way and you can't blame the hobby for it
you should blame yourself for being ok with having a shitty social circle.

u wanna know why we travel. i left china when i was 18 and now i get 2 degrees from England and Canada. these no way for me to stay in a place for long time. i just can't stop changing

>>66318543
Depends what you're looking for.

Travelling is best for getting laid easily.

>>66328383
If you're not an autist...

>>66328383

I've never had sex abroad. But I will say that European women are so much better than American whores. European women are fucking gorgeous, and so nice

>>66318786
huge over generalisation 2bh

>>66328468
You'd have to be super autistic.

>>66328483
Seems like you never got any at all senpai.

All women are whores.
You just need to find one to be your whore.

>>66328648

>Seems like you never got any at all senpai.

I have, just it's been a very long time. But Tbh, it wasn't even a good experience. The few experiences I've had I didn't enjoy

>>66318543
>maybe start investing in a house.

this kind of traveling people is maybe afraid of settling down

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>>66328648

>>66327716
>That feeling when you will never know the bliss of living somewhere else.

I wish there was a international roommate thing to where i could live with someone else and if i don't pay, I get deported, simple as that.

Wouldn't mind living with the japanese and actually learning the damn language so i could read moonspeak.

>>66329312

You know you can do that right?

>>66329305
sorry senpai :(

>>66329391
No? Seriously have been looking for a roommate to move out. And there's not even a good american website i can find. I sorta gave up on their being a good international one, let alone a system for it.

Unless you mean learn japanese, i mean, yeah i can but a language i won't use often, i don't want to learn.

>>66329543

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