That’s all well and good, but my community would probably kill me eventually so…I’ll stick to not talking to them.
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qooqie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Traveling the world spending hundreds of thousands is great and all, but have you tried exploring everything about your community? I find it far more rewarding to invest my time into my own community and learning about others that are my neighbors. My community has a wealth of people and experiences and going through that is way nicer instead of not even scratching the surface of other countries people and cultures.
ClaireDeLuna@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ITypeWithMyDick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Woman/minority/not-christian in a conservitive area?
ClaireDeLuna@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Transfem atheist in the south so yes yes and yes
TigrisMorte@kbin.social 11 months ago
Found the dude not in a red state!
qooqie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
True, I’m also in a really diverse city within the blue state so I have access to so many cultures within my region. I can go to open events at a mosque or even at events hosted by the local synagogue or local Pakistanis or local Indians or local Chinese. So many cultures, it’s really nice and I’m very lucky.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sure, but even in Texas, you can drive to either Mexico or a bluer state within a day and experience more culture. And Alaska has all the indigenous culture to explore.
imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yeah if you drove for 8 hours
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Faster than flying to Europe.
Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Idk, I live in a small town and I’m kinda tired of my community.
qooqie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I suppose that is something to consider. Find a city you love and can see yourself calling home for a very long time
PatFussy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They also only ever go to Europe. Nobody that wants profound life changing experiences goes to Europe other than to put it on as a badge of honor that they did.
If you want a life changing experience, get a minimum wage job.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Nah, SEA is the new hotness for “life change” tourism
Still pretty up and coming though since the infrastructure isn’t as well built out and foreign language accomodation isn’t as present outside of the already touristy areas, but when has the reality of a situation ever stopped a trust fund baby before?
I think there’s still validity to globe trotting though, living international experiences will genuinely lead to better matured people, and serves as a pretty solid means of cultural diffusion, especially music and cuisine.
As for minimum wage work, I think that’s best handled by adopting those laws Aus did specifically criminalizing karen tantrums.
LucyLastic@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Protip: Live in Europe and you don’t even need to go anywhere :-)
psud@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s interesting to look up the tourist things in your local area and do a day trip around home - perhaps I’m spoilt though, living in a federal capital with plenty of national things
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Depends on where you live. My community really sucks (Terre Haute, Indiana), but I do a lot of regional exploration. You don’t have to travel all that far, maybe a day at most, to find new and interesting things.
kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Does Terre Haute still have that smell? Been a while since I’ve been there but when my wife was in school at ISU, I distinctly remember that funk of the wind was blowing right.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thankfully, no. The paper plant closed down. Instead we now have a performance space that hosted Ted Nugent a couple of months ago. And we’re getting a casino for some reason.
db2@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
My condolences. But at least it wasn’t Trump, gotta find that silver lining where you can.
dutchkimble@lemy.lol 11 months ago
Just out of curiosity, do you know the name of the paper mill?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I almost moved to Terrible Hole for a while … I still wound up in Indiana, though, so I guess it was moot.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Depends on where in Indiana. We grew up in Bloomington and have many friends there and it’s a decent town overall, even though it’s in Indiana, so we’d love to move there. We can’t afford a house there, but it’s a nice dream.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Shit, prices there are skyrocketing, aren’t they. Are they trying to catch up with Seattle?
SeducingCamel@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Ahh terrible haute
rayyyy@kbin.social 11 months ago
Depends on you. My community sucks but I enjoy gardening, grafting, hiking, hunting for delicious mushrooms, bird watching, boating and building stuff. Not to mention flying and fishing.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t really like most of that, but I do like exploring diverse cultures. And I can do that if I just drive a little. Which is a hell of a lot cheaper than backpacking through Europe.