I don’t have a desire to go back to the UK. Don’t have anything against the place, there isn’t anything there that entices me. Of all the European countries I visited I found it the most boring.
but how though why do people refuse to go back to the us or uk?
I don’t know what more too say to you. Nothing entices about going to the UK. If I am going to spend the resources to go to another country it won’t spend those resources on a UK trip.
- France
- Italy
- Mediterranean Sea Cruise
- Germany
Are the European areas I would spend time and money seeing.
I live in the US so I don’t know what to say to you about that.
As somebody from the UK I understand your original comment but putting Germany on this list is interesting – I find German and UK culture to be very similar.
Culture isn’t a factor for me.
Why Germany is on my list:
- The bars and restaurants in Germany are orders of magnitude better than the UK.
- There are a lot less assholes in Germany
- I once lived there and it would be interesting to revisit those places.
- They drive on the correct side of the road.
- Germany women are a lot more approachable.
All subjective and I’m not going to disagree with you. I hope if you ever do find yourself back in the UK that you have a more enjoyable time.
All Subjective…
Of course the list of places that I want to visit is subjective…
I’m not looking for an argument, I was just commenting on the similarities of the cultures.
Britain, it wasn’t bad or anything just no desire to visit it again. Saw what I wanted to see. Wouldn’t mind seeing Scotland again though.
Your comment is a bit weird. Like saying, “I would never go back to the US again, I have no interest in it whatsoever. Although, NYC on the otherhand…”
Surely then it would make more sense to say, “I wouldn’t go back to Florida” or, “I wouldn’t do back to England / Wales / Northern Ireland”
To take you one further, it’s like saying, “I’d never go to Europe again – except France. I like France.”
Makes more sense to specifically name the countries you wouldn’t visit because for all we know you’ve never been to Wales.
My bad I forget england and britain are not interchangeable terms
As a Scot I’m always secretly pleased when we get a pass while the rest of the UK gets a ‘meh’.
That said, the North of England, Cornwall and Brighton, and parts of Wales are definitely worth a visit.
Israel
I’ve only been to 18 countries but there aren’t any I wouldn’t go back to. My home country of the USA has become a shithole, but there are some people there I will probably go back to visit at some point, most notably my son. Although he’s coming to visit me first. Maybe I can hold out until the orange stain is removed.
I’m hoping to never go to Russia again, but I may have to if I want to finally cancel my citizenship… absolute shithole, even if you ignore the current political situation.
Can’t you do that at a consulate? Or is that not possible for Russian citizenship holders?
Eh, they might Jamal Khashoggi you
Shit, good point.
Nope, the paperwork to cancel a citizenship needs to be filled out in person exactly at the office in the town you were last registered in. At least that’s what my older sister had to do when she canceled hers a few years ago.
I’ve only ever been out of the country one time.
My boss and I wrote a paper that got us invited to an international conference, that took place in Palermo, Sicily.
It wasn’t high on my list of places I want to visit, but free overseas work trip to Sicily!
It was pretty disappointing in many ways. The whole time I was there I constantly felt like I was about to be robbed or scammed.
The taxi drivers are nuts, we were sure we were going to die multiple times just on the ride from the airport to the hotel.
The accommodation in the city was pretty cheap but most places had awful reviews, so we splurged and chose a 5 star hotel near the conference venue. It ended up being the equivalent of a 2 star back home. Mold in the bathroom, paint peeling off walls in the bedroom, exposed wires poking out of every electrical outlet. The hot water didn’t work in the shower for 2 of the 4 nights we were there. At the buffet breakfast they served cold toast, warm yoghurt, and spoiled milk. You couldn’t make it up. And that was the best accommodation in the city.
When we walked from the hotel to the conference centre, we were walking past piles of garbage that people just dump on the streets. Apparently that’s a normal thing. There’s nowhere else for garbage to go. Sometimes it gets picked up by the city collectors, usually it doesn’t.
There were no pedestrian crossings, and cars don’t stop at red lights. So the traffic is constantly flowing at full speed on all the roads. Often the only way to get to where you need to go is to walk out in front of traffic, don’t make eye contact with any driver, look straight ahead, clench hard, walk sure, and change your underpants when you get to the other side.
It wasn’t all bad. The food at the restaurants was amazing. I had some very good authentic Sicilian pizza. They serve cheap pints of Heineken at every restaurant and bar. If you like oily fish such as sardines, pilchards and anchovies, you’re in heaven because it’s their staple, they serve them on everything. The locals love cannolis and eat them like crack. They were served for desert at the conference, at the gala dinner, and at every restaurant we went to. I wasn’t a fan of them.
I liked the novelty of being in a different country for the first time, but I wouldn’t go back to Sicily again.
Huh, interesting. I’ve been to Sicily on a student exchange. My experience was totally different, but it’s maybe because I didn’t stay in Palermo. I’ve been to Taormina and other smaller towns. It was beautiful, both the towns themselves, the nature, the weather and the view of the sea. These local towns are old and mafe for pedestrians, so almost no cars. All the local shops are run by mom and pop and everybody knows each other. They invite whoever is walking by the shop to eat lunch together. We took the bus from my host’s home to the neares town and we drove through lavender fields, it was amazing.
Not to say your experience wasn’t genuine, but it sounds like it’s Palermo that wasn’t very pleasant, not Sicily in general. I would definitely recommend the smaller towns.
USA
Yugoslavia, can’t, no longer exists.
Generally? Haiti.
The United States. I have zero interest in going to a country where I could get kidnapped by masked goons or have my phone stolen by the government for sharing memes they don’t like. I have no interest in going to a country where I could get shot and killed randomly by some whacko who had a bad day and decided to shoot up the place. I have no interest in going to a country where I could be charged thousands of dollars for getting hurt. And I have absolutely zero interest in giving my money to a fascist country that regularly threatens my country’s sovereignty and whose economy is on the brink of total collapse. That dumpster fire can stay down south, thank you very much.
Every time I look at the United States and everything that’s been going on there, it only makes me more proud to be Canadian and ever more vigilant to prevent the same from happening to us. We have our problems, sure, but at least we have actual healthcare, no mass shootings, and no fascism.
I have no interest in going to a country where I could be charged thousands of dollars for getting hurt.
Tbf, you can go to like half of the countries in the world and the heathcare is just as horrible, and the locals always try to scam you, so its not unique to the US.
(But I don’t disagree with your other points)
Genuinely excited to visit the homeland. Then I saw this today. A little less excited.
I went to four different cities in China and at least a significant proportion of people seemed very selfish and out for themselves across the board, I’m not going to say never but it’s definitely at the bottom of my list of places to return to.
America. I visited maybe 15 years ago and felt like I was a criminal in the passport control. Super-authoritive people, iris scanning, fingerprint scanning, photography…
Ill stick to europe.
And it’s all theatre. It’s never actually stopped real criminals.
I think it’s worth saying that security theater isn’t pointless. Criminals tend not to be the brightest, and they tend to like to go for low hanging fruit. That makes even the pretense of security somewhat of a preventative, even when security doesn’t work. Same way a fake security camera helps.
The trouble is that they have a ridiculous amount of rights to be racist to people, abuse their power, and screw people over. Basic xray machines and security guards by itself would be reasonable, even as security theater
“Never again” is stronger than I’d put it but we probably won’t be vacationing in France again became god forbid a guy doesn’t want to eat animals
Australia. Not that it was wholly terrible. It just wasn’t what I expected and I overcooked it by staying for 2 years.
To be fair, it could never have lived up to the super-positive stereotype it has here in the UK.
We think of Aussies as fun-living, friendly, witty, laid-back beautiful people who are down to earth yet somehow savvy and open-minded. They love a drink and a BBQ and have a ‘live and let live’, inclusive attitude. Basically everything we Brits would love to be if we weren’t so repressed.
I think this cliche comes from a cross between Crocodile Dundee and through meeting the thousands of charming Aussies who end up working behind bars when they visit the UK in their youth.
Also, with the British weather being what it is, we imagine anywhere with a sunny climate would encourage people with a similarly sunny disposition.
Anyway, I’ll spare you the details, but having travelled extensively throughout Australia - well beyond Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane - I found little of the stereotype I’d expected and quite a lot of the opposite.
I did meet some great people, but they were mainly Irish 🤣
Yeah I mean, we’ve been heavily influenced by the US and UK historically, so we have a deeply racist disposition. Our treatment of Indigenous Australians is as much of a blight on our history as it is for other English-speaking nations like the US, Canada and South Africa. I do still strongly believe we’re doing better in a lot of ways, for example we’ve started using indigenous place names, acknowledging traditional land ownership and other steps. But we’re far from perfect, and if you come here with that conceptualisation then you’ll definitely be disappointed.
Yeah the cut the tall poppy syndrome is rampant there.
They celebrate alcoholism.
It’s still legal to hit children in certain states
In fact domestic violence was pretty normalized and women in droves die per year to it.
And they think the rest of the world is going soft by trying to be more inclusive in minority rights. Women in particular.
I mean it has some appeal with the beaches but yea, the people are still 1970s -1980s chauvinistic crowd.
I will give them this though: they do look after people with disabilities a heck of a lot better than another countries I’ve seen. Never mind ‘the elevator broke.’. That shit doesnt fly there not even for a second. And they did stomp down the classism way more than UK attempted to.
