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Location: Formerly NYC by week; ATL by weekend...now Rio bi annually and ATL bi annually
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Brazil....i love her to death...and hate her for so much that i cant even begin to list the reasons....yet she may be my retirement stop. TBH I have a love/hate relationship with everywhere ive been because nowhere is perfect.
Brazil....i love her to death...and hate her for so much that i cant even begin to list the reasons....yet she may be my retirement stop. TBH I have a love/hate relationship with everywhere ive been because nowhere is perfect.
Yeah Brazil has so much beauty yet so many problems too. There is favelas, crime, poverty, tropical diseases, corruption, but also amazing beaches, culture, cuisine, nature, diversity, so it's a very conflicted country
Love: The leader's unintentionally comical behavior and threats, plus his fashion sense, including his solid black outfits and unique hairdo. I can't think of anyone who more closely resembles Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movies.
Hate:. The overall mistreatment of the North Korean people, including the political prisoners in concentration camps, and the fact that the leader is disgustingly fat while the people are starving.
It is weird in countries like India to see someone walking down the street unwrapping some food and just toss it onto the sidewalk. No sense of guilt like needing to make sure nobody is looking, just a cultural norm of trash belongs on the ground wherever you happen to be standing.
Sometimes if a river is nearby they make the additional effort to toss garbage there instead.
I've witnessed that behaviour in USA and Canada, tossing trash on road and sidewalk
without giving it a second thought. I get your point though, not on the same scale,
Not everyone in North America is like that just certain percentage of people.
US comes to mind, I live here but Im not born here so I guess I could criticize it as a traveler. I love the food, the (relative) lack of corruption, the fact that you're not forced to serve in the military, you can protest against the government without being worried about being tortured and killed, there are amazing cities like Charleston, San Fran, Boston, the diversity of the US is unmatched, police don't try to steal your money, etc. On the other hand, I dislike the massive travel distances between cities, the crappy public transportation, the third world infrastructure, the ridiculous apartment prices, the fact that you need a car to go everywhere, 99% of the US has a ****ty climate, medical costs, education costs, gun violence, racism, etc
I tend to agree with you on the climate part. I've lived in all parts of the U.S. I grew up in the midwest, also lived in Fresno, Seattle, Las Vegas, Miami and Washington D.C. area. The only area I have truly loved is the Pacific Northwest. I really hate extremes on both ends, though I can tolerate colder weather more than heat. As much as I like D.C., this summer has been horrible (55 days over 90 last time I checked and high humidity to go with it). I definitely plan on retiring somewhere in the Pac NW, west of the Cascades. I doubt it will be Seattle though as it's gotten way too expensive.
The USA. LOVE the variety of nature, the wide open spaces, the wilderness, the mountains, the Grand Canyon, the Niagara and some other places I've been to. Despise most of everything else.
The mother looked angrily at the woman who just got pissed on, and said to her son, let's go back inside. Their apartment was right there! My god, just use the toilet!
This. I've seen 'em encourage their kids to **** on subway floors (they make a whistling sound while holding the kids legs apart), next to cars on the sidewalk, along the edge of markets, etc. many Chinese have very little interest in teaching their children to use appropriate facilities despite public restrooms being fairly widespread.
Same with appropriate age of public nudity due to above public urination habits in China. You see private parts belonging to kids that look at least 8-9 years old kids just from random public squatting, that isn't something other adults should be seeing.
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