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DC area gets old quick, once you do your rounds of the popular sites, it is not like you are going to go back again, and again multiple times a year. People end up just waddling to their favorite spot, and drink their misery and anxiety away as they are plotting and worrying about their careers.
If I have my hang out spots in Arlington, there is little reason to roll up to Bethesda or Alexandria.
Very true. I know someone who traveled a lot but was limited to local sites due to economic hard times one year. He commented he didn't know there was so much to see so close to home.
Same here, I live in SW Miami and I am at The Everglades Nat'l Park at every chance I get...Even in Summer when you get bitten alive by the skeeters !!!
South Fla has been explored by me east, west, north and south. Love the Keys to go and relax !!
I went to the Bahamas yrs ago and realized that the Keys and our Beaches in The Gulf and the Atlantic are better than goinn' abroad for lesser than what you have in your own backyard.
I recently moved to the DC area for work. Most of my coworkers aren't from around here, but it seems like every night they just go home to their apartments and play games or watch anime, or occasionally out to a local bar to drink. We're one county away from the city of DC, and many people at my office have never been there, or to Arlington, Alexandria, Maryland, etc., and don't display much interest when I talk about things I've seen and done there. Their lives exist within a 2-mile or so radius.
How is it so overwhelmingly normal to just not be curious about your surroundings?
Watch Anime ? either your too young, or I'm too old ..
It's the crowd you are socializing with .. go ask a 50 year old if there's anything worth seeing around this area... he will probably list of 30 things he's done, or wanting to do / see
I have tried hard to explore the surroundings but really there's nothing to see.
Lots of toll roads, if I recall correctly from my drive to New Mexico nine years ago. One could make a sport of seeing how expensive a drive around the Tulsa periphery might be
Lots of toll roads, if I recall correctly from my drive to New Mexico nine years ago. One could make a sport of seeing how expensive a drive around the Tulsa periphery might be
Yes, lots of toll roads. But honestly, it's not that bad if you don't travel out of Tulsa very often. I tried to "explore" Arkansas, OKC, and rural Oklahoma. Very boring places. Hot Spring National Park is literally a joke, I mean, it's not even as good as an average state park.
I find toll roads in Dallas area more annoying. Unless you don't value your time at all, driving on toll roads can be a daily thing.
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