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Hilarious phenomenon of people who travel and think the whole country is like their vacay
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:19 am
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:19 am
People go to super nice villas in Italy and eat handmade pasta and drink expensive wine = “Wow all Italians live in Villas eating pasta and drinking wine, no processed food!”
Go to a resort town in Spain where the vibes are relaxed and low stress = “Everyone in Spain is so laid back and calm!”
It’s hilarious to me that people don’t realize they are on vacation and enjoying a picturesque version of the place they are visiting and not what the typical people experience day to day. Even if you “live like the locals” in a hostel or whatever, you’re still getting a sensationalized version of what life is like there.
I know so many people who come back from visiting a place and tell me
- everyone there is happy
- nobody is fat
- everyone eats healthy
- people there appreciate life
Cracks me up
Go to a resort town in Spain where the vibes are relaxed and low stress = “Everyone in Spain is so laid back and calm!”
It’s hilarious to me that people don’t realize they are on vacation and enjoying a picturesque version of the place they are visiting and not what the typical people experience day to day. Even if you “live like the locals” in a hostel or whatever, you’re still getting a sensationalized version of what life is like there.
I know so many people who come back from visiting a place and tell me
- everyone there is happy
- nobody is fat
- everyone eats healthy
- people there appreciate life
Cracks me up
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Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:19 am to Tiger1242
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nobody is fat
This part is probably true
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:20 am to Tiger1242
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Cracks me up
you don't travel very much, do you?
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:20 am to Tiger1242
quote:literally no one does this.... you must know a bunch of mouthbreathing idiots
People go to super nice villas in Italy and eat handmade pasta and drink expensive wine = “Wow all Italians live in Villas eating pasta and drinking wine, no processed food!”
Go to a resort town in Spain where the vibes are relaxed and low stress = “Everyone in Spain is so laid back and calm!”
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:22 am to Tiger1242
quote:It’s just retarded women
Hilarious phenomenon of people who travel and think the whole country is like their vacay
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:23 am to Tiger1242
We vacation in Bossier or Denham Springs. Depends if we want to see the mountains
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:23 am to Tiger1242
when i went to Texas on vacation everyone was a cowboy and had a ranch.
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:24 am to Tiger1242
Except that when I go on vacation in New Orleans for a sugar bowl, I go to a restaurant when the staff HATES me for giving them money.
It too makes me say that NO is a shathole.
It too makes me say that NO is a shathole.
This post was edited on 1/14/25 at 11:25 am
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:24 am to Tiger1242
Poorly educated people.
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:25 am to LordSaintly
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quote:
nobody is fat
This part is probably true
It's definitely true along the mediterranean, but there's probably 90s American level obesity in more developed, more northern places (France/Germany). UK is honestly just as fat as here, if not worse on average for whites outside of London.
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:26 am to Tiger1242
Where do you vacation?
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:27 am to tigertrueAU
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when i went to Texas on vacation everyone was a cowboy and had a ranch.
When I went to Louisiana on vacation everyone talked like Troy Landry and rode alligators to work
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:28 am to Tiger1242
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I know so many people who come back from visiting a place and tell me
- everyone there is happy
- nobody is fat
- everyone eats healthy
- people there appreciate life
Depends on where they are leaving / returning to. I go to Colorado and want to stay because the places I like are walkable, less than an hour from world class hiking / climbing / backpacking, and the people tend to be more polite. Even at fast food places, people do not as often seem like you are ruining their day by asking for a burger.
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:29 am to Tiger1242
quote:
People go to super nice villas in Italy and eat handmade pasta and drink expensive wine = “Wow all Italians live in Villas eating pasta and drinking wine, no processed food!”
Go to a resort town in Spain where the vibes are relaxed and low stress = “Everyone in Spain is so laid back and calm!”
It’s hilarious to me that people don’t realize they are on vacation and enjoying a picturesque version of the place they are visiting and not what the typical people experience day to day. Even if you “live like the locals” in a hostel or whatever, you’re still getting a sensationalized version of what life is like there.
Why would i go on vacation to experience mundane/everyday life? Vacation is for experiencing things you don't typically do in a normal day. I don't expect the Scottish are visiting castles every day. I don't believe the French only make wine and food.
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I know so many people who come back from visiting a place and tell me
- everyone there is happy
- nobody is fat
- everyone eats healthy
- people there appreciate life
A vacation is a glimpse into the culture of the people. Sitting outside of a cafe in belgium drinking good beer most afternoons is both a picturesque version of what people do, but it is also factual. Eating a baguette and cheese with wine at lunch does happen in France, but i doubt it's the everyday meal for most people.
It's ok to enjoy yourself on vacation and fantasize what it may be like in the ideal version of the place you visit. It's ok to be happy.
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:30 am to BeachDude022
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talked like Troy Landry and rode alligators to work
First, upvote.
Second, I have spent my adult travelling life trying to convince people that we don't wrestle alligators every time we leave the house down here. Then some housewife will film a gator on her porch after a big rain and it goes viral and all my friends out of state say "SEE!!!" Pisses me off every time.
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:31 am to Tiger1242
Your use of hilarious doesn’t seem accurate. I didn’t laugh once.
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:32 am to Tiger1242
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vacay
Found the queer.
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:32 am to Tiger1242
Hilarious phenomenon of people who talk to a few people who travel and think that all people who travel think the whole country is like their vacay.
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:34 am to BugAC
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Why would i go on vacation to experience mundane/everyday life? Vacation is for experiencing things you don't typically do in a normal day. I don't expect the Scottish are visiting castles every day. I don't believe the French only make wine and food.
This is the point that I’m making.
People go on vacation and come back acting like their experience is typical of what all of the locals experience on a day to day basis. I had a conversation in an airport bar with a couple eating burgers talking about how nobody in Italy ever eats like this and all the food and things are fresh and everything in America is crap like what we were eating. Shockingly they weren’t eating their meals in a shitty airport bar while vacationing in Italy.
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:34 am to Tiger1242
quote:no shite, it’s a vacation
you’re still getting a sensationalized version of what life is like there.
I didn’t want to dig up peat or milk goats while I was in Ireland
That’s why my ancestors left
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