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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are sheep, if I hear about one more person going to Portugal or Japan I am going to scream. A few years ago, it was the National Parks, it seemed like everyone was going to Yellowstone or Grand Tetons or whatever. The constant need to keep up with everyone else, going to the same vacation spots, same poses, same SM captions…Traveling loses its appeal when it becomes so common and predictable. It’s annoying waiting in lines and competing for photo ops. Too many damn people doing the same thing.[/quote]
And it’s terrible for the locals and environment.  People don’t want to go to the same places so they start venturing out without a care to how it will impact the place. Then said place (Costa Rica, Portugal, National Parks, etc) gets overrun with tourists. Housing gets expensive bc of Airbnbs. The environment suffers.  I mean people now are vying to go Antartica, which should be off limits to tourists.  I think (not so far away) future generations are going to look at the pictures of all these escapades and shake their heads. [/quote]
Agree. I am all for travel and acquiring new life experiences, etc. However, it has been taken to an extreme, like everything. People can’t just run a 5k, no, they have to run a marathon or ultramarathon. Kids can’t just attend school now and study independently, no, they need to get tutored and prepped. Everyone is reaching, grasping, clawing to get a piece of the pie. Everyone is a star, an entitled special snowflake. If celebrities can travel to Ibiza and Marakesh and Provence, so can I. I am as entitled as anyone else, even if I have no life savings, as long as I project an attractive SM image, that’s what matters. You can’t take it with you they say, so why not spend it all trying to live like a celebrity? I blame SM and globalization. And again, not all of these people are doing it for likes or validation, or are living above their means, but many are. It’s very superficial. [/quote]

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