Any place on your "definitely not going" list? (train station, reviews)
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Oh yeah, definitely not going back to China again.
Spent 28 days there in 2009 which was an amazing experience, but I will not do it ever again.
Saw blue sky ONCE in the whole time.,. in Xian.
Every place else was uniformly taupe... sky and earth.. very depressing in a bizarre way.
Was never so happy to see the sun when I returned to LI at the time.
PS Tibet was absolutely refreshing by comparison as I could breathe fresh air at 12,000 ft in Lhasa !
I have a very specific place where I will never go. You would never guess the reason. So don't try to guess But the reason is a real one. If I went to this place I would not last one day until people in the street picked me up, bashed me to a pulp and threw me into a garbage compactor. That is no exaggeration. That is what I guarantee would happen but only in this place. I am safe everyone else. Including in every other state of the US. And no I have never been to the US. But I say to you assuredly that I don't need to to be guaranteed that everyone in the following state would shoot me on sight.
Oh yeah, definitely not going back to China again.
Spent 28 days there in 2009 which was an amazing experience, but I will not do it ever again.
Saw blue sky ONCE in the whole time.,. in Xian.
Every place else was uniformly taupe... sky and earth.. very depressing in a bizarre way.
Was never so happy to see the sun when I returned to LI at the time.
PS Tibet was absolutely refreshing by comparison as I could breathe fresh air at 12,000 ft in Lhasa !
Air quality in China in general is definitely not good, but it depends on when and where you go. Places with good air quality mostly are in the south - south of Zhejiang Province.
I was just in Shanghai for 2 weeks in May, about 1/3 of the days the sky was blue, the other days , taupe as you said. We spent a weekend in Chongming Island of Shanghai, it was all blue clear sky.
If good air quality is important for you, you need to go to the right place, and definitely not in northern China, or major cities.
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I would not travel to:
1. North Korea. Obviously going there is just like going to a staged-trip. Everything is fake and not to mentioned highly controlled.I do not really agree with how he treated his people. So no way jose!
2. Russia. While not everybody there is homophobic, the country has obvious anti-gay law. I also read so much hate crimes perpetrated.
3. Some countries in Middle east and Africa where ISIS is roaming currently.
I just cancelled a planned trip to India for one reason : because of the risk of getting food poisoning ( or at least turista).
It's a thing my wife and I already had AND DREAD and we don't want to run head on into it even if that means forsaking potentially new, interesting sightseeing ; we'd rather stay on the safe side.
I like my civilized creature comforts. Third world toilets have no interest for me. And it is not about the people it is about the lack of my creature comforts.
But reverse racist who are by and large mental midgets, can only think of one denominator of factors, and attack on the basis of people not fawning over non-white third world toilets. Ignore them. Reverse racist are a bore.
It's comments like this that are frustrating for me. You won't go because there's no creature comforts, but if you went you'd realize how wrong you are.
I'm far more concerned about finding a decent toilet on my upcoming roadtrip across the US west than I was in China or Indonesia. Heck go to Singapore and I double dog dare you to find a cleaner place on earth that has that many people in it. The food courts and hawker centers have more regulation and are safer than any food court on this continent. As far as comfort goes, it doesn't get much better.
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But the reason is a real one. If I went to this place I would not last one day until people in the street picked me up, bashed me to a pulp and threw me into a garbage compactor. That is no exaggeration. That is what I guarantee would happen but only in this place. I am safe everyone else. Including in every other state of the US. And no I have never been to the US. But I say to you assuredly that I don't need to to be guaranteed that everyone in the following state would shoot me on sight. 
