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Why do people always seem to only travel to places like Japan, Thailand, Greece and the other "usual" spots instead of somewhere less common but still cool? I`m not saying you gotta go to a place like Turkmenistan just to not be like the other girls but I`m talking about actual cool places.

Guadeloupe for example is a Caribbean, tropical volcanic Island with rainforests, waterfalls, coral reefs, and black and white sand beaches where you can sunbathe with Iguanas. That sounds way cooler to me than walking around Tokyo looking at office buildings? yet none of you have ever heard of it.

Explain
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I just go to white people places like Appalachia, the Ozarks, and the Midwest.
except for greece, everything you listed involves interacting with brown people
I've seen maybe 5 black people total the last week here. 80% of people are blond.
there's waterfalls here, coral fossils, sand beaches and deep lakes with clear water
you can sunbathe with bobcats
>office buildings
houghton michigan has some nice late 19th early 20th century red brick buildings in I guess a Richardsonian style.

pic related is about an hour's drive from houghton
apologies for the wildfire haze
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>>2897762
Eric Rudolph lived in those woods for 5 years while being FBIs most wanted. He survived by eating salamanders and stuff.

The more you know . .
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>>2897764
but anon, this is michigan, not appalachia, I just try to go to the most appalachiay parts of the midwest
im here to escape the heat
2 hot in real appalachia now
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>>2897788
oh okay, I was talking about the real appalachia
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>>2897760
Most people only do a few international vacations in their whole life. They don't wanna waste it on some literal who, they wanna see the bucket list places
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>>2897760
Go to Japan, Thailand, Greece and the other places. Then visit the shit holes you think are unjustly overlooked. Tell us which ones you enjoyed more.
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>>2897762
I’m not opposed to buying a shitshack in WV but the PNW weather is straight up godly. It’s truly underrated. I might have to buy a shitshack in Aberdeen WA instead

The older I get the more I hate humidity
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>>2897760
>Why do people always seem to only travel to places like Japan, Thailand, Greece and the other "usual" spots instead of somewhere less common but still cool?
If you say you're going to some place they never heard or that's not in style you get that fluoride stare. I told the normies I'm going to India last year and they all said the same lines in lockstep. They told me how I was going to die from the food and to be careful etc, but it was kino. Then I went to west china, guiyang, not really talked about. It was dirt cheap, hotel was about $3.50 a night. But no one speaks english and people are stereotypical chink peasants, for better or for worse. Then I went to KL and I guess it is considered usual. By far my least favorite of current trip. Now I'm in Kaohsiung and I never heard about it until recently but it's shaping up to be my favorite so far, with India being pushed down to number 2. We'll see how it measures up at the end of these 3 months but definitely loving it

All of the lesser known places have real flaws with tourist infrastructure and you have to live like a local to get around effectively, finding a valid place to stay or a normal place to eat is effectively impossible unless you can at least read the local language. This filters people and forces them out of their comfort zone. It's a big commitment to be fair
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>>2897760
The appeal of traveling is the slightly more interesting mundanity as you described (walking around, nature, food, history etc) but ALSO being able to intersperse that with getting my dick touched.

The periodically getting my dick touched is what makes traveling not just a cake donut but a cake donut with cream filling and glaze on top.

The “cool” places = where the average white loser can get his dick touched

Nothing more, nothing less. Men do not do anything and I mean ANYTHING that doesn’t indirectly result in getting their dick touched
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>>2897817
>The “cool” places = where the average white loser can get his dick touched
I see where you're coming from but a lot of places off the beaten path are very fruitful in that regard. Granted, most of them are underwhelming nothingburgers, but trailblazing as a pioneer instead of going to oversaturated reddit places is a valid strategy. The place I got the most sex in per time spent was India, I got 5 lays over a one month span just off of cold approach, and no one ever puts it in the same conversation as Thailand and Colombia and the Philippines. In Korea I also got close to 40 lays over the course of 18 months and the conventional wisdom says that its impossible mode and shitty for dating afaik

Normies are retards and they get filtered by anything that takes a modicum of toughness or IQ to get past. If you have the freedom to follow your boner to whichever corner of the world it takes you, you damn well should. These safe horny places are for boomers with two weeks a year of PTO and need something guaranteed they can throw money at without thinking. IMO the skill ceiling is too low when it's saturated with foreign dicks like that. "Common knowledge" is common because it's aimed at the lowest common denominator, and you shouldn't adhere to it blindly unless you are weak drooling scum.
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>>2897823
>In Korea I also got close to 40 lays over the course of 18 months
>im jelly

Can you QRD the procedure?
Is it just
>talk on gook friendly
>meet at Thursday party
>take home?
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>>2897829
No not at all. When I was a beginner in Korea I got a couple of pulls from nightlife (I think literally all of them were from Thursday Party)

Korea has the best nightlife in the world and the conventional wisdom says you should go for it. But after I got good at moon runes I basically stopped going entirely. It neutralizes my two greatest advantages: my balls and my language skills. During that 18 month stretch, 2 or 3 of my lays were from online (notably one of which was a North Korean refugee) but the rest were from cold approach daygame. I'm elite at the moon runes, and my voice sounds sexy af in it and it carries me hard over there
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>>2897878
larp

t. larp detector
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>>2897880
seethe

t. cope and seethe detector
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>>2897760
Plenty of people do but there's usually a reason
>Galapagos, expensive
>Mt. Everest, expensive
>90% of China, Africa, Latin America is a poverty stricken shithole with holes in the ground for toilets and toxic tap water
I won't lie, you're right that it's a shame more people don't and I always wanted to visit the places I saw as a kid in Nat Geo magazines like Christmas Island and Papua New Guinea, but it's expensive to get there and there might not be hookers. The hookers thing is just my version of "I want to see all these beautiful things, but I also NEED xyz". For many travels, that's family. I know people who are married to a Croat, or an Armenian, etc, so they go every year to visit family and then they get to have an adventure. Need and want is both satisfied.
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>>2897878
It’s pretty funny that i nailed the exact club having never gone to Korea and just skimming a few posts over several years that repeatedly mentioned it.

Good for you anon
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>>2897760
Caribbean is utterly swamped with tourists. It's the most touristic region in the planet. I'm a continental traveler, islands aren't my thing.

Most people are stuck in a wagecage and do not have the time it takes to wander around discovering obscure places. They demand maximum stimulation for their trip, which is why NYC, Paris, Tokyo are so popular.
>>2897762
Michigan is top notch, full of neat white towns. Forests are well cared for, water is surprisingly pristine. But I heard motels up there are extortionate in summer. Prices are bad enough here in southern Colorado (which has many Hispanics but virtually zero Afros). Bicycle camping travel around Michigan is something I'd like to do some summer.
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>>2897817
Speak for yourself. I have better things to occupy my time than giving attention to spoiled whores in the hope that they will reciprocate (which they never do for me, all they want to do is lay there and let me do all the touching and work. Fuck that - no pun intended.)
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>hot, burning sun, buggy, poor, expensive, crime ridden african shithole

Why would anyone except a normie retard go there?

Ive been to 50 countries aside from Germany with no Africans . Thats really my main criteria and why western Europe and the Caribbean is a no go zone
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>>2897762
No one tell him about Greece
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>>2897980
>no go zone
You mean anything outside your mom's basement?
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>>2897760
1) there are plenty of shitholes with beautiful water and land
2) people have limited funds
3) they want to go to places where the people have done something with their lives and culture, where there is freedom and joy and intellectual genius
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>>2897760
It's just fear.
Well-trodden = safe and easy in their minds.
They go where everyone goes because it's proven to be easily doable and worthwhile. This is also why a shitload of people consign themselves to ridiculously overpriced package tours, they just worry they won't be able to handle it.
>yet none of you have ever heard of it.
I thank the French for keeping their colonies as EU territories every day.
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>>2898016
its probably why I pay more for an established brand like the Hilton as well. Its not that the cheaper option would be bad but when I go with Hilton I know nothing will ever go wrong.

it removes the worry and makes it more stress free
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>>2898016
The fucked up thing is that popular tourist places are huge magnets for petty crime.
Getting pickpocketed in Barcelona is inevitable for many.
Meanwhile go to somewhere "dangerous" like the Balkans and unless you are being some massive fuckwit to locals nothing will ever happen.
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>>2898023
Buddy of mine went to visit Albania and he was kidnapped and held for ransom.
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>>2897980
>believes in /pol/ memes unironically
>jizzes his pants whenever he sees a black person
many such cases
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>>2898036
maybe you should look into fbi crime statistics
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>>2898038
>maybe you should look into fbi crime statistics
yoooooooo we did it tiktok
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>>2897976
Tell them to pull out their phone and scroll tik tok and act bored while you bone them. Free-use oblivious bitch academy vibes
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>>2897760
Asking this question is like asking "Why is everyone crowding in cinemas to go watch Odyssey, while nobody goes to watch less famous but still cool movies by lesser known directors?"
Traveling for pleasure is a hobby. Like all hobbies, the way you engage with it depends on time and effort you put into it. The more time and effort you put into it, the more you learn, leading to you developing taste and experience which will influence the way you will travel in the future. This is similar to how people who are really into movies and watch one every other day will eventually develop a taste that will let them appreciate and seek out more obscure and less accessible films. Some, I would say most, people don't want to put in this time and effort. They want to just enjoy traveling every once in a while, and they don't want to spend a month researching an itinerary, figuring out local laws and regulations, getting vaccinated for exotic diseases, going to an embassy to get visas, etc. (things which are often required for traveling to not-as-touristy places, such as China). Which is why these people either just tend to choose straight up prepackaged holidays or just go to places which are popular, known to be safe, and easily accessible to western tourists. These people are like the people who are not really into cinema much, but will go to the theatre to watch the famous blockbuster that comes out once in a while.
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There's no reason to go anywhere with blacks, even if you are black and it's easy to avoid them just go east of Germany all the way down to turkey all the way to Japan you've got 30 countries with no blacks
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>>2897975
>But I heard motels up there are extortionate in summer.
yup, tho there's TONS of them and you can probably find one that isn't, it just might not have ac and might be kinda old and plain
I am staying in an apartment thats plain and old but the bed is newish and it has central ac and its totally fine just not near the cool stuff so its annoying long drives to get to places, stay near marquette if u can afford it or houghton

its very white here, but it is a little bland
seen plenty of people around on bicycles here

>>2897813
eh pnw weather is much more extreme, i realize you are talking about the coastal areas, but the interiors have insane snowy/icy winters (yes compared to wv) and the coasts are cold and never warm up to something comfortable even in summer, um the coast is pretty humid esp in winter
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for me its the language barrier and convenience
if i had time I would but as a wageslave i have limited vacation
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>>2899172
>if i had time I would but as a wageslave i have limited vacation
why are you wageslaving? bad at budgeting, or they have you in golden handcuffs and you dont want to leave the (((career))) behind?
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>>2899173
i can't budget myself out of never working again. I could take unpaid time off but working is comfy rn maybe some other time
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>>2899173
probably because he's like the vast majority of the world, a person with a job and possibly a family. both things you don't anything know about anon. life's about balance not autism kiddo.
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>>2899177
>probably because he's like the vast majority of the world, a person with a job and possibly a family. both things yo
Don't talk down to me, midwit.



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