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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tokyo
Seychelles
Mexico City
Phuket
Nepal
Prague
Martha’s Vineyard
Jackson Hole
Dubrovnik 
Marrakech 
Antarctica 
Easter Island [/quote]

I have the feeling this poster is likely insufferable in real life.

Tokyo is one of the most amazing places in the world. It's a lot, but I'd go back in a heartbeat. There's something for everyone. [/quote]

This is what happens to people who are wealthy and either grow up traveling extensively or travel very extensively relatively early in life (20s/30s). I have a number of friends from both college and grad school who are like this and I think it's the result of having never been limited in terms of travel. I also think they got incredibly used to traveling with a lot of money and therefore missed out on the experience of traveling on a tight budget in your 20s, which I think teaches you how to appreciate simple pleasures in traveling, especially abroad. I still have such fond memories of eating picnics of bread, cheese, and wine in the parks in Paris when I was a broke backpacker at 22, or becoming fast friends with Australians (always the Australians) I met at a run down hostel in Greece. I also had to learn to how to find the cheap but amazing places for food and entertainment.

A person who could say that every one of those places is overrated is someone who has lost the capacity to travel well and, honestly, I feel sorry for them. I don't know how you get that back. It's like someone who destroyed their taste buds and now everything tastes bland. It's a shame.[/quote]

I agree. That person with the enormous list of disappointments sounds jaded and unimaginative and I feel sorry for them.[/quote]

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