There's a convention in Charlotte, North Carolina that I hope to attend this summer. I've never visited Charlotte nor anywhere in North Carolina before. I'll be there for about 2 days over the weekend. Are there any must-see places, must-eat food, or anything special that you'd recommend while visiting?
>>2868565it's only open on weekendsthe surrounding area was like fancy gated estates and luxury cars
>>2868494No. It is dull as fuck.
>>2868494nice place to live, but it has no soul and not worth visiting.
>>2868565>>2868566There was a fire that burned down one of their authentic historic buildings very recently, not even trolling unfortunately. I think the main museum building is ok, but it's quite small. Went on a field trip there as a kid, it was 3-4 small rooms with glass cases & artifacts. It was interesting, but might not be worth a 3-4 hour detour on a two day trip. You might like the whitewater center more if you're an outdoorsy type.
>>2870556Also you will certainly spend more time driving than you will in the museum. It's like if someone ran a museum out of their home, or a small doctor's office. It's neat, but will be very underwhelming if you make that drive from uptown just for the museum.
I might be required to travel to Vilnius for a few weeks.What's it like there? Is it relatively safe or are there any scams to watch out for? Can you get taxis or transportation easily, especially from the airport? Do most people speak English? And are budget apartments good to stay in over hotels or are they shitholes? Thanks for any help!
>>2870511It's Europe so mostly cashless and there's all kinds of apps for getting around. Young people will speak it well, older people not so much. No idea about accommodation but I'd probably try renting a flat type accommodation over a hotel if you plan to live comfortably and use a kitchen. If not a big hotel room is probably fine.Baltics are kind of expensive BTW, dont expect it to be very cheap.
>>2870511It's 0.75 EUR to ride the airport rail to the train station. Very nice airport. Vilnius itself has a lot of old buildings, snobbish people, Ukraine flags, and high prices for everything particularly in the city center. Your standard Euro city, basically. >>2870514>mostly cashlessTrue. ATMs are rare, but still exist. LT is the only country so far I traveled around with virtually no cash in my wallet. I paid fruit vendors with euros, but even they gladly accepted card payments.>>2870514Hotels should have kitchens.
Why is there a campaign on internet and 4chan telling people that Japan being overrun by Indians and Africans? Share your experience here.
>>2869783Yes, if it's January.
>>2870068nonono sorry it was 80 for like 3 nights.
>>2869854>>2859809Been there for a week, saw zero noggers except a few gentrified african american families on vacation.But i only go to Harajuku during the day and didn't spend much time in Shinjuku.
1 more month in Japan and I’m in Beppu right now. Is Nagasaki worth a few days visit?
Im biting the bullet and getting the Sanyo-San'in Area Pass for 7 days.My question for you guys is aside from Nagasaki, Fukuoka, and Hiroshima do yiou guys have any other recommendations? Was thinking Matsue for the castle
Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread>also known as /sqt/ (Stupid Questions Thread)For your quick one-off questions that pertain to travel.Long or convoluted questions should get their own thread.Questions about popular destinations should be asked in any active thread about them.Previous: >>2788942
>>2870460If anything, I would book ASAP. Even if you aren't worried about safety or delays, you should still be worried about prices going up.
have any of you fuckers done 'skiplagging' ? (basically when you book a flight with layovers but just get off at your first stop because it's cheaper then booking direct)considering, I am flying 1 way, no checked bags, on an airline I most likely will never use again barring some unknown circumstance.It saves my ass like $200-300
>>2870497Looks like you already know the score. Just a couple more things to look out for:1) Make sure your "destination" isn't a country that you would normally require a visa for.2) Make sure your "destination" isn't a country that demands to see proof of return/onward travel.If your "destination" is at least one of those things, you will be asked to show your visa/return ticket before you even board your first flight. You and I both know you aren't actually going to the final destination on your ticket, but you gotta at least pretend you're going there. So make sure it's a country that wouldn't be problematic for you to enter.
>>2870502it's pretty much just 1 way from America to the EU and not some super exotic place. I take it they won't care too much about my flight bookings and stuff?-in a similar but different topic, how is this EES system for EU now? I do plan to be moving around a lot. is it fully implemented, and is it a good or bad thing? (longer lines, more annoying, etc)
>>2870507Both the layover and the destination you plan to ditch are within the EU? You should be fine, they don't demand return tickets from Americans.My understanding of the EES is that it's just less stamping and more biometrics. For your first time, and every three years thereafter, the border guard will take your picture and your fingerprints. So I guess if you're in a line and everyone in front of you is getting photographed and fingerprinted for the first time, it'll take that much longer for the line to clear.It's not fully implemented yet, as some countries have yet to catch up. So some countries will still stamp you through the old-fashioned way. I don't know which countries are lagging behind.
Looking into some of the WHVs available to Canadians and I want to know what /trv/ has to say on them and if anyone has been on one before.>Not interested in being a sexpest>I've been working remote and travelled most of the EU and better parts of Asia already. This is mostly what's worth settling in for a year.>I don't really care about local income or taxes. See above. I just want to supplement my real job with something interesting and social part time.Short list right now is Germany, Japan, France, and the UK.If anyones interested in seeing the options they're herehttps://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadians/international-experience-canada.html
What a list. how do you go on a working holiday to San Marino.
Just got back from an Asia trip. I've been avoiding going back to HK since COVID as I've heard it was dead and I couldn't bear to witness. Well, to get back to the US from Hanoi I thought why not hop over to HK for a few days. It's not worth it. The buzz and vibrancy in the streets is gone. People don't talk politics anymore. Most of the people who were resisting have already fled and those who remain get dragged out of their homes to the mainland. HK is filled with mandarin speaking mainlanders who bring with them their mandarin sensibilities, behavior, and general "vibe" for lack of a better word. The Cantonese charm is gone. Old mom and pop shops have been razed to make way for malls and show rooms the new mainlander elite shop at. Kowloon has 0 charm left.Hong Kong is just a boring mainland city now. I wish I never came here it's like watching a loved one on their death bed wishing it wasn't your last memory of them. Wishing your last memory was when they were healthy and happy. I regret it. I will never return. I can't bear to witness.
>>2868060No seriously I'm glad to get the fuck out of there. If it won't be Guangzhou because they deny me a visa run, it will be Japan, Vietnam or Thailand or Taiwan, anything but these crowded streets full of miserable people eating and drinking and smoking overpriced stuff. The only good thing I enjoyed about HK is getting drunk on the 9% ABV cans at 7-11, and getting a cheap new smartphone tax-free, otherwise they have no culture, nothing significant, it's just tall buildings waiting to be burnt due to faulty electrical wiring. The biggest meme I've ever visited and it's not even close.
By the way, the streets look like Durrës in fucking Albania, and somehow this is supposed to be an unique experience or something. No fuck you, I call this a dump. The novelty wears out after a couple of minutes.
>>2863485Oh I do know about how "hi tech", "nice", "rich", or "safe" Shenzhen is. But how on earth does it have anything close to a "HK" vibe aside from happening to be in the same geographical region?>t. never been to either, but have been to China in general
>>2862493> wealthier Definitely not. Even 10 years ago when I was a young wall streeter all the Asian markets guys were talking about all the good banking and investment jobs were being sucked out of Hong Kong into the mainland. I can’t imagine it’s a real Silicon valley of entrepreneurship.
>>2862493I know HK are happier now because the chinese kill them if they complain
just spent 2 months skiing and working part time in the french alps. anyone doing some skiing and such this season?
>>2865927Do they have real snow or is it all snowblower? I didn't know Arizona had skiing
>>2865929They get 250+ inches a year at Snowbowl. But this was a below average snow year for them. 42/62 trails were open though. It was decent conditions. They just got 4 feet of snow in the last week, so it's much better now. The problem on the west coast is price and weekend crowds. Lake Tahoe and Park City have lost their minds with lift ticket prices. Heavenly is $200/day, park city is $250+. Mammoth is $178 and it gets insanely overcrowded on weekends. So we've been checking out some of the other lesser known resorts the last few years. Brianhead Utah and Snowbowl in Arizona are both great and insanely cheap. Brianhead has better snow, but Snowbowl is right next to Flagstaff and has more to do. On a good snow year, I'd pick Snowbowl easily.
>>2865597French side the best
>>2865800If you're not a hobbyist, you won't understand modern childless people's obsessions with hobbies like skiing. It becomes the essence of their identity.>>2865597No. I hate snow and winter in general. It's 84 degrees in my room right now, which feels super comfy with the fan running. >>2865797Did you slide down on a plastic trash bag? That can be a lot of fun.>>2865821Some people don't give a shit about frivolities like sliding down a mountain. >>2866143>a good snow day>in ArizonaThat's really a stroke of luck. Some years they've been getting hardly any natural snow, but then a snowstorm will sweep through and dump a whole bunch of powder.
>>2865597I went skiing at Alpe d'Huez when I was 12 and it's still one of the best holidays I ever had. I loved it, though I was terrible at skiing. Just being out in the snow, at altitude, being led along a route and onto a large stretch of descent to fly at what felt like 100mph... really something I want to do again. Friends tell me snowboarding is even better, but I've never tried it
So basically, I graduated college a few years ago, and I was supposed to focus on applying to law school, but I got bogged down in my current job and I got depressed and lazy and I just never ended up doing it. Well another year has passed and this may be my last chance. I'm 26 and quickly approaching the point of no return, so I need to make a change.I have about $60K USD in total savings. I was thinking of taking about $10K USD and relocating somewhere in SEA or Balkans from August to January and just focusing ENTIRELY on my law school application as a day job. This would hit 2 birds with one stone, achieving my dream of long term travel and seeing the world, while also being productive for once and not worrying about my stupid fucking job that's killing my time and motivation. It sounds genius to me, I just have some questions:1. Where to go? I was thinking SEA or Balkans as general regions, but what are best cities as a base?2. Budget. Is 10K doable for 5-6 months? I can go as far as 20K MAYBE but I don't wanna blow all my savings. 3. Visa requirements. As an American, how much can I do without a long term visa? Like can I rent an apartment long term in visa free countries for a few months? What about visa countries like Vietnam? What are the rules here?4. Any risks or ways this could fuck up my life financially or on the job market?5. Other tips.Also general unemployed nomad thread
>>2870267>A law school is not a company. You apply in Fall/Winter and then start next FallDude are you doing one of those for profit education style schools or some BS. I hope this is a troll because in the OP you said you went to college already. If this is your mindset you failed at life.Sure go to SEA or whatever blow 60k thinking you can be an "influencer" and then wind up poor cool man
>>2870270Ok, sorry if it's not clearIn America, law school is a completely separate school that you can only do after you already graduated undergrad
This guy is going to end up with a 150 LSAT spending $150k for some dogshit law school so he can be a personal injury attorney making $60k. Probably won’t even be able to pass his bar.
>>2870271Anon I worked in higher ed I know you can get a criminal justice degree, yes that's the proper term not "law degree". If you can't apply and do this at home, you have 0 chance abroad. I agree with others, if you want to take a gap year sure go ahead ask that but don't guise it in the fact of "I'll totally study abroad KEK".
I did this. I ended up having a hard time studying, got a 165 LSAT, decided to wait another cycle, went home, actually studied, and got a 173 and admissions to 2 T14s. So just don’t do it.
How is it possible to meet the Yakuza? where do they meet? can a foreigner get into trouble with the Yakuza? can one become friends with them?
>be organized crime group>conduct "business", legal or otherwise, and settle disputes with lethal means outside the law>stupid tourist wants to take up your timeThink about how that would go.The only way it would work is if you happen to know someone who happens to be in the Yakuza, and even then it makes no sense unless you live there because who's going to make time and effort to get to know some tourist that's going to be gone in a week?
>>2869486I walked around Fukuoka and never noticed that but Nagoya gave me that feeling often. The people are weird there.
Lmao at all the replies "that wouldn't go well for you"A single out of shape white dude could beat up 5 yakuza members and become their boss. They don't mess with foreigners because they'd get their butts kicked
>>2870286What the fuck is this line of thought? Organised criminals would take you head on like it's a sport? They'll get some scrawny, expendable deadbeat to shank you from behind with a sushi knife or something. Doesn't even have to be one of their own, they can rope some poor fucking civilians into it.Let's assume they're theatric enough to send some thugs to corner you, you think they'll just send five? Once? And that's it? Not even Yakuza the game does that
>>2870308Bro trust me I'd win lol they don't even have guns over there
>So glad I didn't visit the cities and regions with stuff to do... that would be so Reddit>If you aren't spending 3 months in Kandra, Jharkhand you aren't actually travelling, you're just going on a reddit vacation.
>>2867392I, too prefer generic dusty alleys and grand vistas of dry deforested scrublands over Paris
>>2870004Everyone treats me like a VIP here. Can't get that in Paris for $20 per day.
>>2870164Are you getting girls without paying though? Anything else is cope
>>2867392bro is responding to chatgpt and yet still falling into the very thing it describes.
>>2870284B-but she said I'm handsome! Women back home dont want be because of feminism.
Time Out ranks Melbourne best city in the world to visit in 20261.Melbourne, Australia2.Shanghai, China3.Edinburgh, United Kingdom4.London, United Kingdom5.New York City, USA6.Cape Town, South Africa7.Mexico City, Mexico8.Bangkok, Thailand9.Seoul, South Korea10.Tokyo, Japan
>>2869876all 10 are sovlless shitholes
>>2870194>60s and 50s>Grim as fuck Brown detected
>>2869924Yeah this, Melbourne was fine but super generic and not very interesting.
>>2869876I don't know who Time Out is>>MelbourneOpinion discarded
>>2869876>7.Mexico City, Mexico
2026 is a great year to start exploring Appalachia
>>2869767nta but we call it the "Catskills" in NY and the "Poconos" in PA, because there's a whole industry of selling big houses in the middle of nowhere to middle class new yorkers who want to move somewhere cheaper, and those names are better for property values (which is to say no one in NYC is going to buy a house in "Appalachia" no matter how cheap it is). The locals have generally put up with this because at this point the number of transplants in those areas outnumbers the "natives".If someone volunteers that they live in the northern part of Appalachia it generally means they live south of the Mason/Dixon line.
>>2869769geologically the land surrounding the catskills on 3 sides is appalachia, but the catskills themselves aren't I actually had never been to the catskills before and had a nice time in september, very very dry unfortunately. Got cold at night a few nights!
better than SEA asia
>>2869432Mmm, the lovely taste of toxic seepage from coal mines! Toss in a rotting deer carcass for extra flavor. The piped springs outside of mining country are good, however.>canyons in NY or TNHardly. Picrel is a canyon, Aswal Khind, which I hiked to yesterday from a public bus stop. 11 hours total trip. Over there in eastern America it's 99% sloping hills covered in trees through which you can only get the tiniest glimpses of the valley below. If you're lucky there's a big jutting rock at the summit that provides an overlook, but that's only one small spot. The Blue Ridge Parkway was slashed through the ridgetop forest for the sole purpose of creating scenic views where there were none.
>>2870293>Mmm, the lovely taste of toxic seepage from coal mines!It's not exactly unknown where mines are and you can be pretty sure if you are or are not downstream of one. Like um don't drink the water in the Cherry River. >through which you can only get the tiniest glimpses of the valley below.you know the drill, as you said you have to walk to the big rock with the view, but in exchange you get beautiful trees that change color in the seasons.
Anyone ever been here (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan)? Does it live up to the hype?
>>2869001Where you going to? What you gonna do?
>>2869017Flying into Tbillisi (cooking class, wineries), Batumi (not sure what to do yet), Kazbegi for some hiking (snow depending, not sure how much there will be). That is all I have so far, I think I have 9 days or so. Any suggestions?
>>2854178Been to Georgia/Armenia, enjoyed my time with both of them. Went in early Summer. >live up to the hypeif anything they're underhyped, especially Armenia
>>2860401For Georgia/Armenia, if you like Wine definitely don't skip out on the wine areas. There are multiple regions that focus on it but I recommend Kakheti/Vayots Dzor
>>2855671General rule for caucasus is young = speaks English older = speaks Russian Also to everyone going to the Caucasus AVOID TAXIS AT THE AIRPORT YOU WILL GET SCAMMED USE YANDEX/GG PRO APPS FOR TRAVEL
Getting stationed in germany for a couple years, any recommendations on places to visit/ tips on learning german?
>>2870201Berlin if you like nightlife, Soviet history, and overall grungy punk vibes Bavaria if you like traditional European vibes and nature. Rest of Germany is boring
>>2870201>tfw not American and can't larp as Elvis Presley getting stationed in GermanyBerlin is as good as it gets for nightlife. Really good. And great food there, very international. You can find historic sights almost everywhere so really depends on what you are interested in. It's not too difficult to get around. Everything is connected by trains even though they aren't reliable at all. I personally only go around by my car and that's very convenient. Roads are good, Germans are very good drivers. You can go to the popular sights first to put a checkmark and then explore more rural places. For me the best thing in summer is to take my bicycle and just follow my nose to wherever. Small bavarian villages can be really qt with many buildings being older than the USA. Local Volksfeste offer great beer, good food and people in good moods. And lots of your pic related. Don't skip the Oktoberfest even if it's very touristy. Definitelly a nice experience. Metal festivals are amazing too. Germany is a bit autistic in terms of socialicing similar to Japan. Approaching strangers and starting a smalltalk might work but I think it's rare. But once you join some sort of club/sport/etc it's really easy. Or the Volksfeste where everyone is kinda drunk anyway.
Has anyone been to any kind of Caribbean carnival? How was it?
>>2869024>i dont go above 1 out of principleAnywhere in europe is way above that, so where do you go that's that cheap?
>>2869504LATAM, eastern europe, can sometimes snag something in southern europe...not really interested in visiting overpriced nigger infested shitholes like western europe/north america
>>2869614>not interested in nigger infested shitholes>LATAMummm... what?
>>2869616Argentina and uruguay are as white as America was in the 80s
>>2869830delusional /pol/tard that has never left his basement
