re: If you are reading this board, you owe it yourself to travel internationally

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the cities the majority of the people you deal with have a bad attitude and not very welcoming. I felt safer in Honduras than in LA. We don't realize how good we have it in the Southeastern US. There truly is no place like home. The people are good from the swamps of Louisiana to the pine thickets of Georgia.

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This is the main point. The people. There is a selfishness to the liberal big cities i've been to. LA, NY, Denver, etc... No one appears friendly. No one goes out of their way to welcome a stranger. Visitors are seen as intruders and treated with contempt. Not to make it political, but, that is the main difference between liberals and conservatives, i've found. We are just friendlier people. And that's backed up by statistics. Surveys have shown time and time again, that liberals are less happy than conservatives. That shows when you go to these liberal enclaves. As dysfunctional as Louisiana is, the people is why it has a magnetic draw for anyone who is from here. I can't tell you, for the life of me, why i still live here. Well i can now, but 10 years ago, i couldn't. Same with some of my friends. There is a draw to the south that isn't really there anywhere else.

I worked 10 yrs overseas, 2 yrs in Saudi Arabia, 1 yr in China, and 7 yrs in Brazil. There was not one single thing I saw in these countries that was better than the USA. At the end of every hitch, I couldn't wait to get back home.

Lived in California for a few years. Central Coast was awesome. Beaches were cold amd shitty.

I travel abroad quite frenquently. Always amazes me how most people in other countries want ethnic purety.

If you think we are racist, you ain't been anywhere.

Being in the military I traveled to many international locations. Not once did any of those places make me wish I lived there versus the United States of America.

If anything, it embolden my desire to know without regret I live in the greatest Nation on planet Earth.

We literally have more people wanting to migrate here in the US than any other Nation in the world. That should tell you how good it is here.

The thing I've noticed about Liberals who migrate to places outside of their normal utopia, they all seem to start to understand why people opposite of them live in those locations, but invariably slowly start trying to change it to the place from where they came from.

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Big Scrub TX

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I saw it. Over and over again. Every day. For years. It gets old, it really does. And not all of the coast looks like that. The prettiest part of the coast I saw in SoCal was around Palos Verdes.

The PCH is definitely a really nice drive though. The northern coastline is nice, but nothing compares to the mountains.

Many here cheered when Obama landed in Havana like it was cigars and classic cars.

They need a trip to GTMO NE Gate to see people die running through mines to reach GTMO from Havana. To understand communism.

Also some need to get to Asia, Indonesia, India, Europe, maybe they wont be bigots and think all women are USA karens..

Why do you assume we haven't? Just because people disagree with a stance doesn't mean they aren't knowledgeable.

I've traveled to every continent except Antarctica. This is the best place on the planet. The rest of the world is ill informed 9especially the Europeans). They just take what their MSM tells them to believe. That's why they have ill opinions of the US.

I have traveled international extensively in the past (don't care to anymore) and still travel extensively domestically. Many shitholes in California.