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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an American citizen. My great-grandparents on my mother's side were born in Italy. My grandparents on my father's side were born in Italy. We have been here in the U.S. since the late 1800s. I am the only person in my family to leave the U.S. for travel, and that was a vacation in Italy. My family had no desire to ever go back to Italy to visit or to live there again.

When I was a teenager, airfare was very expensive. I am just curious, with so much variety in geography in the U.S. what makes you desire trips to Europe (after one or two sight seeing visits) or to Mexican beaches and resorts or other countries? [/quote]

I would rather shoot myself and travel to a vacation resort. That said, I visit about a dozen countries a year, primarily urban capitals where I'm looking to see the latest in food, art, design, music, and culture -- living culture, not churches and dusty museums. I'm in my late 20s, I want the entire world in my orbit, not to be confined to a provincial backwater (it's a charming city, but c'mon, it's true) like DC. I'm not much for nature travel at all.[/quote]

Offend much?  Churches are living to many people and much of the world's best art is found in the great world museums.[/quote]

I want to see art that speaks to the political and social realities of today. I can see incredible art from the past whenever I damn well please, in NY or LA or London or wherever. It'll always be there. Checking out some avant-garde shit in shimokita, on the other hand -- if I'm not there in the moment to witness it, it's gone and beyond my scope of vision forever.

I'll have time for the permanent stuff when I'm old. It'll still be there.

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