Don’t know if it’s a holiday destination, but Dubai. Heat and shopping malls are two things I’d pay to get away from.
Same. It just seems like a vulgar temple to money.
Yep that’s somewhere that’s just never interested me. I hate shopping malls and being too hot so paying money to suffer it isn’t me
Same same. I so not want to visit an extremely hot mall where I might also be thrown in jail for being female and existing wrong. Sounds like a bad time even if everything goes fine!
I also hate extreme heat and shopping malls, and have been to Dubai numerous times. The heat and hypercapitalism were horrible, but the city itself was fascinating (to me). The last time I was there it was 52°C. I must say, the novelty wore off on that trip.
Anything in the USA, because that place scares me.
I have to agree here. I decided after a job interview in Houston I wouldn’t go to the USA ever again. This was in the mid-late '90s. It hasn’t improved in that time.
Yikes. I avoid remote positions from the US, and actively flee if it’s from Texas.
Norwegian fjords. Because I already live here.
I’m so jealous I could cry
I get that. Where i grew up theres stuff I find normal that makes visitors cry. Then I go elsewhere and my mind is blown. People crave novelty.
Can confirm. I have a fascination with deserts. It’s been that way for as long as I can remember. I wanna tumble down a sand dune!
Any of the Disneys. Just screams consoomer to me and I risk running into a Disney adult
I’m sorry to tell you I am a disney adult.
That’s disappointing, Ms Cheese, but everyone has their flaws lol
I use to be a huge Disney theme park fan, but the increasing nickle and dining throughout the years has really turned me off. I still deeply appreciate and admire the architecture and artistry of the parks, but I am not a fan of the direction of the company as a whole tbh.
Florida because Florida
Any theme park. Except Disney. I’d gladly go to a Disney park. After hours. With a tanker of kerosene and a box of matches.
If you do that I’ll fight you till the very end cos I hardcore ❤️ disney
Magaluf. Twats
Bali.
Way too many bogans. I go on holidays to get away from them.
There is lots in Bali that is bogan free. I too hate the idea of bogans on holidays. I was quite skeptical of my first Bali trip, but loved it and have been back a few times, most recently with young kids. Even Kuta is quite family oriented these days instead of drunk bogan central.
It’s got a great mix of good weather, cheap, cultural sites and sights, beaches, boozy stuff (if wanted), relaxing forests, volcanic cycling, zoos, butterfly gardens, temples etc. I go to GC or an Fijian island and I’d be bored in comparison.
Croatia, I live there.
What’s it like to live in?
Not good, most people live paycheck to paycheck. High unemploynent rate when not summer because we only have jobs in tourist season which is summer. If you aren’t living in a bigger city 0 public transport.
If you live in smaller cities/countryside you will most likelly be forced to drive at minimum 10km to closest store’s, or 60+km to closest er and 100+ km to any decent hospital that’s any good.
And let me not starting about the fact we adopted euro recently and the inflation which mak£s us try to survive on 850 euro wage with 500 euro rent and food costs where just one day trip to the store will eat up 25 euro minimally.
As a tourist atraction croatia is amazing, but as a place to live in it’s not unless you are lucky and came from outside the balkans, in chich case you can thrive in the country as shown by a lot of americans who come ti live in Croatia after living on high wage jobs there and having expendable money ( average yearly income here barelly passes 12k euro last time I checked ).
Sounds rough mate
Dubai, most of the Middle East, China, most of the deep south in the US, and any other states or countries like Singapore with shit like beatings or the death penalty.
If Singapore ever relaxes its use of beatings and executions, I would consider going, as it has beautiful gardens and amazing green infrastructure.
Singapore is alright. Been there a few times.
Honestly, Singapore might just be the most boring bland place you could possibly go to. If it was your first time travelling overseas it might be good, and my experiences there have never been bad per se, but discounting places where I’d be afraid for safety, I can’t think of a single place I’d recommend less than Singapore for someone to visit.
100% fuck Singapore. Was such a police state shit time
Pisa, it is total tourist trap. Italy has way much better tourist destinations.
It wasn’t so bad when I was there (in the '80s) but yes, Italy has far more important and beautiful cities to visit.
My personal favourite was Florence.
the evening-/nightlife was pretty cool. all those toscanian like alleys (similar to lucca for example) inbetween houses and lots of - i mean lotslots - 10000/10 restaurants filled with locals
EDIT lots of locals are students too, which makes a far more interesting crowd in general imo
New York City. Stayed one night before flying home and discovered it was noisy, smelly, crowded, dirty, expensive and generally horrible.
I went to NYC on business (trade show, working the booth). I was glad I was there only for the closing weekend. Some of my colleagues had to work the booth the whole week and be in NYC the whole time.
I really did not like New York, and I didn’t even go to the rougher areas. Just too noisy for me, too expensive, and it smelled bad.
And this was in the early '90s.
While not exactly a holiday destination per-se, having seen pictures of people literally waiting in line to get to the trash pile at the peak of Mt. Everest is such a turn-off that I’d skip it even if I was a true mountaineer.
Had a guy in one of my grad school courses who always found a way to shoehorn in the fact that he’d summited Everest not just once, but TWICE! 🙄 Climbing Everest just strikes me as rich person bragging rights, and it isn’t even that impressive given that a lot of the people who do it pay porters to carry their supplies and dig their latrines.
Most of them. The more popular, the less I’d want to go.
Bali
Indonesia has so many beautiful places, but Bali is mostly (I know there are nice places and things too) visited by people who I actively avoid
The Australian bogan is bad enough, but there are the dregs of all sorts of societies there
Go to Lombok instead. It’s fucking gorgeous
