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Well I guess the obvious isn't obvious to everyone lol.
Then really no large American city is "historical" then I guess according to your "standards".
Correct. I can't imagine anyone from overseas is visiting the US for the history. By European standards, we have none. Which again, without the beaches, casinos or amusement parks, I don't understand the huge draw.
Correct. I can't imagine anyone from overseas is visiting the US for the history. By European standards, we have none. Which again, without the beaches, casinos or amusement parks, I don't understand the huge draw.
hmmm, so new cultures and different cities don't interest you I take it?
hmmm, so new cultures and different cities don't interest you I take it?
If I lived overseas and was looking for a dose of 'Americana', SF would be further down the list. But that's just me. And if it makes you feel any better, since you're obviously taking this personally for some reason, I would be in no hurry to visit Boston either.
Correct. I can't imagine anyone from overseas is visiting the US for the history. By European standards, we have none.
I think American history sites are probably more interesting for domestic travellers, and while we don't have the long historic span of Europe or a lot of bigger sites, foreign tourists do visit some historic places. Maybe not as big a draw as big amuesment parks or casinos(which are some of the biggest tourist spots in Asia and Europe overall as well), but you'll have people following their guidebooks to historic sites and that sort of thing sometimes. How old places are though is often overestimated--most of Paris is from the mid to late 1800s with some medieval/rennaisance churches, though I think many would consider the landscape a "historical" city. Travelling throughout some large cities in Asia, a lot of it seems even newer than US cities--except for scattered rebuilt temples and surviving palaces everything is supermodern. But yes, a lot of the oldest US historical sites are small like the Spanish missions of California or little colonial buildings--we didn't really grow up as a nation until the late 1800s.
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Which again, without the beaches, casinos or amusement parks, I don't understand the huge draw.
The natural landscape out west is a huge draw also though considering how many foreign tourists you'll see at the big National Parks(Grand Canyon area is crowded with tourists from all over). I don't think people visit solely for historcal travel for the most part, it's more so another attraction--people don't visit a place just for one reason. If you go to Hawaii and visit Waikiki and then go see Pearl Harbor--that's a historical site--you're not visiting it for what's happening there right now, but what once happened there(even if it was only 72 years ago).
If I lived overseas and was looking for a dose of 'Americana', SF would be further down the list. But that's just me. And if it makes you feel any better, since you're obviously taking this personally for some reason, I would be in no hurry to visit Boston either.
Not really sure what exactly " a dose of Americana" would entail given the diversity of the cities on those lists. Not taking it personally but it's not really hard to see why any of those cities are on the list as most visited. I get that some people don't like cities really but it's not hard to see their appeal for tourists. I guess not much interests you beyond beaches, casino's, and amusement parks. Florida must be like heaven to you lol.
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