[anovikov]

Not arguing with most of it. And for those struggling with executing on it, i highly recommend to get on Ozempic/Wegovy which helps with nearly all the list just due to the way it wraps your mind - anyway, if you have a problem procrastinating, drinking, overeating and not saving money you are also likely overweight and qualify for it.

But question is: wtf is wrong about travelling? I understand the purpose of travelling simply as: seeing new stuff frequently and frequently doing everyday things in a way you never did before just because new surroundings force you to. You can't follow you normal routine, you have to think on every step. That keeps your mind sharper. The older you are, the more benefit it makes. What's wrong about it? Smartest (and richest) people i know just travel most of the time literally. A few are nomadic in the most direct sense: they move from one 5-star hotel suite to the next for years and years.

[2stya]

I had a tough time traveling with normal people. They needed to visit only popular cafes and restaurants, stay in long queues to get to overcrowded places. They don't care the history of the city, they have only places to check-in.

I had a conversation with my colleague and he said he wanted to visit India so badly. But he had some restrictions for the trip: the hotel territory should be with own beach with no access for locals, and the personal should be all non-Indians. That's difficult for me to understand what kind of India experience you could get with this approach.

[anovikov]

I had a tough time travelling "with" almost any people. Travel alone and don't let people fuck your brain. If you get lonely, get on Tinder, in a new place it's always easy in the beginning.

[sharadov]

sounds like a racist douchebag to me

[2stya]

I don't know what happened in his head that moment, because he had Indian colleague who he actually respected.

[bigbillheck]

Must have been "one of the good ones".

[sharadov]

selective racism

[Detrytus]

Travel is a surrogate "hobby" for people who don't really have a hobby, but want to do something that makes them look interesting.

[eshack94]

This isn't universally true. Some people truly enjoy experiencing other cultures and parts of the world for its own sake. Not everyone who travels for pleasure and curiosity are doing it "for the gram". That being said, there are also many people who are.

[mewpmewp2]

You must live in a good climate. I mainly travel to avoid shitty climate.

[seer]

While that could be considered true, isn't it the same as saying "playing the satar" is a shitty surrogate hobby for people who are too afraid to travel and explore other cultures?

A good hobby will positively affect one's live, be a source of personal pride and sense of accomplishment. You can be the guy who obsesses about metallurgy and makes the sharpest knifes in your basement. Consequently that gets you to brag about it to your referent group and make you feel a sense of joy, apart from the joy you feel when you do the crafting itself.

Similar with traveling - immersing yourself in foreign cultures and trying to understand them is very much akin to endeavouring to learn a new programming language, or starting an open source project to test out some cool tech. With luck you'll get something tangible (photos and videos of trip / git repo with cool code), will have the memory of the joy you felt with the exploration and will have something to talk about with your referent group.

Sure there are people who abuse traveling to make it for the status rather than for the joy, but isn't that true with everything?

In the end, if it brought you joy, and you didn't harm anyone, it would could be worthwhile to you. And an old folk saying I've heard ones said "whatever you eat and drink nobody can take away from you". Its the experience that matter.

[yungporko]

i have several hobbies and there are countless places all over the world that i'd love to see if i could afford to

[hijklmnopq]

We bow to your supreme art of traveling. Please share so us plebs know how to travel

What a dumbass comment

[uoaei]

Spoken like someone with an overconfidence in their own judgments and an underappreciation of alternative worldviews.

[MisterBastahrd]

If you're taking a trip for a week at a time somewhere, you are experiencing their tourism industry, not their culture. Experiencing culture requires you to remain in a place for a period of time, and you don't get that by visiting shops and bars. You get that by building relationships with people where they are.

[uoaei]

Depends entirely how you approach it. You can build relationships that last a day and still learn a lot.