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What's the appeal of traveling?
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>>2703754
food, if you're going somewhere closer to the equator.
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>>2703757
What if I'm already near the equator?
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>>2703758
looking at cool things and fucking foreign women is up there too
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>>2703761
I'm 5'4"
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>>2703762
doesn't matter
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>>2703762
whores will fuck anything for money. ive never met a short guy that wasn't hopelessly in love with money. if ur not into cooming then stay home and watch it all on a screen.
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>>2703754
It's fun and satisfies my extreme wanderlust
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>>2703754
>riding motorcycles is VERY fun and cheap in the 3rd world
>Asian women are very sexy
>Asian food is great and cheap

Idk what one would do when traveling anywhere else besides Asia
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The disconnect from your normal life if you have enough self-control to not check the news and ignore notifications from your social groups.
Pictures of a location and being at location are completely different, sometime its better but sometime its worse.
There is also more than just sightseeing, such as hiking, skiing, beach, event, theme park, etc.
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>>2704632
If I already don't enjoy or hike, skii, go to the beach, event ,theme park, etc, locally, does traveling make me suddenly interested in them or is a post purchase rationalization kind of thing?
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>>2704649
Good bait.
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>>2704649
in my case I dont enjoy going outside and running into people I dont like and having to spend money to do so. so that limits the things I do and the times I go out. im sure if I was in a cheaper country where I wasn't bothered by the locals I would go out more frequently. the crowds are really a deal breaker for me. who likes going to the beach and having to listen to spic boombox wars? tons of quiet and otherwise spacious public places ruined by people like them.
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>>2704666
I bought a ticket for a concert the other day and didn't go and ended up sleeping because I was too lazy to go out
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Leaving the ordinary behind, and seeing new places and things not seen before.
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>>2704667
my condolences for your loss. I had to sell a relatively new home in an american suburb because my spic and nigger neighbors (that both moved in years after I was already there) wouldn't stop making noise. my future housing requirements is to live in a country where minorities like them dont exist at all.
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>>2703754
To discover all the reasons you hate going outside.
I remember when one old tourist early 2000's, really rich person not a thug at all, would give weird look and say you only want to travel because you haven't traveled if you'd say I wanna go to some multicultural place. They already knew back then diversity is problematic. Nobody just wants to embarrass themselves stating the obvious. We don't wanna deal with bums, losers or criminals.
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>>2704674
They really are fucking loud for real and always drunk or wants to fight or acts like shit human being. Then they say didn't do nothing and act like cops won't shoot, when they have already done it over 100 000 times for legit reasons.
Anyone who's saying racism is bad, doesn't go outside and plays too much videogames. They are even worse than the caricature gives out them to be.

I had to witness it today and they should legit just go to jail and stay there. I'm highly educated by the way.
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What's the appeal of living?
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>>2703754
The process of adapting to a new place is mentally stimulating. You are focused externally, not internally. Travel offers the best possible opportunity to observe and study human behavior, as a sojourner with no existing bonds to anyone. Travel allows one to enjoy a life of leisure far more than rotting at home does. Extended travel opens your eyes to the realities of your home country; upon return, you find yourself noticing and evaluating everything about it like you are visiting it for the first time, despite everything seeming strangely familiar. Returning from Taiwan to California, what first struck me is "Wow, this place looks so retro, like everything was designed and built before computers even existed!" Even the BART metro with its continual squealing and shaking about felt so outdated compared to the sleek noiseless Taiwanese rails. Yet all the urban space and greenery, even the grass alongside the sidewalks, felt so refreshing and visually pleasing compared to the grimy concrete jungles of Asia. Something as simple as an immaculate front lawn helps elucidate the differences between White priorities for a good life and Asian priorities for a good life. The luckiest travelers learn to love every place they visit.
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>>2704719
There isn't any
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>>2703754
eat
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>>2703754
cultures
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>>2703754
>appeal
109 (and counting).

I dont have a choice...
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>>2703754
promise of a better life
escape from the nightmare that you're in
honestly doesn't work as well as it used to
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Experiencing different life and cultures. Food, it’s half the reason why I travel. Getting away from the stress and responsibilities of everyday life.
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>>2703757
Eating food outside of the EU is a bad idea.
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>>2703754
Depends really. There's a whole lot of reasons people travel including but not limited to; relaxation, change of scenery, education, food, chance to experience different cultures, art, creating new memories.
I grew up in the suburbs of baltimore county, when I became an adult, I drove into baltimore city daily. At first I spent my vacations in New York (Long Island and NYC), I liked it so much I moved there. Then I started doing Miami and Seattle. I eventually branched out to the Caribbean and Hawaii. Granted those we not out of the "US" so they don't count (The same way visiting Canada or Mexico doesn't count if you live in the US). I moved to the UK and now I do Australia and mainland Europe.
I was originally doing it to reset. A chance relax, not to think about work or the drama of where I lived. Now I do it because I want to experience new things. Every long weekend, I'm in a random country on the Iberian Peninsula or Mediterranean. I do proper holidays in Switzerland, Austria or Australia depending on the time of the year.
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>>2703754
Whats the appeal of posting demoralisation threads on /trv/ with all the pedo anime pictures you have saved on your computer?
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>>2709114
they cant make it on the big boy boards so to have to come here to get their daily (You) quota.
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>>2704719
Scarcity and fomo
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>>2703754
IMO, touristy things (museums, tours, sight seeing), a change of scenery to mentally reset and find new inspiration, as well as just mentally unwinding by setting aside several days where you have absolutely nothing to do but relax and enjoy yourself.
IMO, if you're lonely, then traveling isn't fun.

>>2703761
Are there places good for that, or do you just have game? I find women tourists in my town are easy to get with, but being a tourist yourself somewhere makes everyone ignore you.
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>>2709730
accurate
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>>2703754
Don't be autistic. It doesn't matter where you go if you are a legit tard.
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>>2703754
The fiction people tell themselves before actually dropping $6000 to do the same thing they were already doing at home
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Why do I need to travel when google maps and good images exist?
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For Cope finding a "meaning" to this life even knowing it has no meaning no matter the place but hey at least you feel some fun
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>>2703754
trying cake from different countries
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>>2703754
I live in a cold shithole and I like warm beaches, brown pussy, Latin food, and drinking in foreign clubs. It’s fun and different from my usually routine, plus I have money.
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>>2703758
Then you can't afford to travel
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For me the feeling of impermanence is far more palpable when I'm abroad for just a few days than when I'm rotting at home for weeks on end. It makes me feel more adventurous and liable to try things I normally wouldn't do, talk to people I normally wouldn't talk to, and so on, because I know that even if I do something that ends up being really cringe and embarrassing it's just going to make for a funny story when I come back home at the end of the week.
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>>2703754
excitement
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>>2703754
My love for food, souvenirs, and general curiosity of how different the world is from 1 mile to 1000. The fact that I might miss it is not something ill regret having
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It’s a status symbol for dumb pathetic people. There are very few places that are unique or exotic any more. I save my money to improve my life day to day rather than blowing it on short lived holidays
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>>2703754
See something besides my 4 walls and computer screen.
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Food
Dating other type of Women
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Love new experiences!
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>>2703754
Fucking and cumming inside of women who can't or won't try to ruin my life if they decide they didn't enjoy it years later.
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>>2703754
Nothing anymore, except maybe that some countries are slightly cheaper than in the West, and maybe some new food experiences.
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waste money
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>>2722290

"Nothing"

I always assume responses like yours are trolls or npcs but "muh food" confirms you are just a low iq npc
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>>2722604
With 4K video available for basically everywhere on earth why do you need to spend thousands to upset your daily routine and forego income for that time just to see something?
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>>2703754
Non-extradition treaties can make it safer to commit crimes
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>>2724780
>forego income

Lmao you are a wagie so your low iq take is expected. You probably don't even go outside because you can just look at a picture of it
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>>2703754
You have to be where you are and you hate it. Or. You have a subsidized lifestyle that allows you to dispose of income using economic leverage in a different economy.

I never cared about travel until I got stuck in the Pacific Northwest for years.
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>>2704666
Hawaii was actually really cool for this reason. No nigs smoking weed, no spics with Bluetooth speakers, the beach was the beach. More places should legislate nonwhites out of existence in public spaces.
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>>2727920
This. Travel is expensive escapism.
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>>2727926
Travel is cheap escapism. If you live in a shithole like the UK or America it's cheaper to travel to a nice country like Japan or Albania and stay in fancy hotels than stay home
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>>2703754
Mainly escaping the long and brutal Canadian winter.
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>>2726972
It's amazing how the entire zoomer brain revolves around interactions with a screen.
>I'm horny
>look at e-girls and porn
>I want to shop
>go to Amazon
>I want to relax
>turn on some nature soundtrack
>I want to travel
>watch a travel vlog
>I'm hungry
>sees what Grab Eats has to offer
>I'm bored
>watches a movie or plays vidya
>I'm lonely and miserable
>posts on /adv/
>>2722604
You think you're so smart because you don't enjoy the hunt for food and shelter? Gonna bet mom has always provided both for you. Also gonna bet you're unhappy with your life and think it's meaningless.
>>2722267
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uNzNTLVa3c
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Sometimes is better to spend money on experiences rather than things.
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>>2703754
social signalling
If you have travel experience to share and photos to show, your peers will respect you and women will want to have sex with you
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>>2703754
i don't know, I enjoyed the scenery, like you would go to a place and be like "wow". Figuring out how to get to places and talking with the locals to get hints is fun. It's like you're playing Morrowind for the first time but in real life. You can only do it if you're rich and willing to blow thousands away though. It probably makes more sense if you had a full time job and your company pays for like half the trip. NEET's should just stick to staying home and playing Elder Scrolls or something.
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>>2703754
For most it's this deep cope of getting attention from locals because you suddenly become interesting and exotic in a foreign land when you're still just an autistic loser. Very few actually enjoy new cultures
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>>2704339
>asian women are very sexy
>SEA
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>>2731322
t. White incel crying in mommy's basement
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>>2731380
Seems I hit too close to home
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Travel is a meme for the simple reason that the kick you get from a couple of weeks of visiting a place is no better than watching a movie marathon or eating a meal.

People are the same everywhere you go (except if you decide to visit some African shithole). Globalization has made sure of this. You will see all your favorite restaurants plus some new places were the food won't be so great. You will be running to catch up and still feel you missed a ton.

Travelling is a religious experience at best. You will long for the shit that you planned to see. In real life though it won't be so great. Those awesome photoshoped pictures that were taken from specific angles to entice you are nowhere to be seen. You are stuck with mediocrity and your now delusional mind that has high expectations.

The greatest thing you will get is boasting to your friends and relatives that now thing you are some kind of Indiana Jones while you sob inside for the money and time wasted.

The matter of fact is that in your near vicinity there are far greater things to do, which you haven't even considered visiting. You can get there by a car in few hours and still feel that you are visiting another country. You won't do this though because you fell for the meme of distance.

So yeah. Travelling is a meme. A trick that appeals only to your vanity and your delusional petty mind.

If you are miserable alone in your own country you will be miserable traveling. It's never about the place. It's about you trying to escape from your own self. And you will fail time and time again. Just ask all those douchebags that traveled the world only to find out the whole thing was meaningless.
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>>2731647
>big cities
Wow the exact same dirty overcrowded cramped hive copy-pasted hundreds of times across the globe! I'm sure that at the end of your life you'll be happy you spent your limited time and money going to sardine-can like complexes to see slightly differing configurations of tall buildings, poor people slums, druggies at clubs, and trash-laden public transportation.

>go on hikes
Pointless walking around for hours, getting nowhere and achieving nothing except staring at some stupid trees and rocks and the "rare three-striped red finch" that looks exactly like a regular fucking finch but it has a tiny red line somewhere on its plumage and thus you have seen an amazing endangered beast and this thousand-dollar excursion is the "experience of a lifetime".

>muh museums, ruins
Any historical, architectural, or artistic value can easily be analyzed through a picture, which is all you'll have left anyways in a couple months or years. There's nothing you gain from actually seeing them except pointless, self-masturbatory egoism gained from feeling "cultured" (read : going to stare at some rocks for a couple hours and blowing your hard-earned money to give it to the tour guide, someone much smarter than you)

>muh food
An utter meme, what kind of double-digit moron gets excited over what is ultimately just a rearrangement of grain, meats, vegetables, and spices that will be shit out by you in a couple days anyways. If you willingly spend your money "travelling" to eat "exotic" food you could just drive 40 minutes to get you deserve to lose it.
>muh weather
Is there a more pathetic "argument"? You could be doing literally anything else, yet you go "travelling" to get an effect easily accomplished by turning the thermostat up or down a few notches or getting a humidifier.

>woahhh bro its a few degrees higher ugghhh i love travelling its so exotiiccc!!!
People only travel to signal status, have low iq short term preference and only value depreciating assets.
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>>2731648
Honestly based and pretty true. Just curious what you consider to be worthy pursuits?
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>>2703754
Well don't you want something new?
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>>2731648
You of course failed to mention that the only thing motivating men to travel is so they can get their 5 inch pecker played with.



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