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I've only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they're just kinda there.
Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I'd be taking for granted?
Pic unrelated.
Trees which change color in the fall
My area isn't too tourist heavy until you go to the mountains, but I once saw a bunch of tourists crowd around a rattler and one of the dumb fucks got bit. Closest thing I can think of, actually correction I've seen some tourists amazed by a sand storm coming off a dry lakebed on a turnout along the 15.
Opposite: I (US-ian) was visiting friends in Germany and they took me on a bike ride in the woods.
“Look!!” (Bike sudden halt, stop and point into a tree with full arm) “a squirrel!”
Mountains, Great beer and legal weed.
So Canada then.
Canada does have mountains and legal weed.
Pnw?
That's my assumption but Colorado has a couple decent breweries as well
You win the detective contest on this one. It's NoCo.
Niiice! 🥳🥳🥳
Chiang Mai?
Miami
When I lived in the US, I lived in cities on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. People who weren't used to river traffic would get excited about riverboats and barges.
And people from other climates always got excited about snow. Even the slightest flurries were cause for celebration.
Now I live in the Andes, and the exciting things here that the locals take for granted (or even count as nuisances) are the volcanoes. I can see one from my apartment. Four years in, and I still admire it every day.
In the UK, the thing I thought was fascinating was just the sheer amount of history literally everywhere. Like, 2000-year-old stone monuments in people's sheep pastures. It made me understand how extraordinarily young my native country and my current home country both are.
Black squirrels. They're very normal to us but I find a lot of people who travel here, especially from the U.S. are shocked to see them lol
This sounds like a pretty Calgarian response. While I know that there are black variants of eastern grey squirrels in pockets all over North America, ours were specifically introduced as such. They've subsequently pushed out local squirrel and chipmunk populations. I don't think you can even find a squirrel in Calgary that isn't black.
Here's a fun little story about the first time we saw black squirrels.
We had just moved to Norfolk, Virginia. My mom is driving through Norfolk, Virginia. Have you been to Norfolk, Virginia? Norfolk, Virginia is heavily African American. Heavily. We are white.
My mom is driving, downtown Norfolk. It's very heavy traffic, we're going slow. It's one of those areas where you worry about someone randomly starts cleaning your windshield, or if it's late at night you might you may worry about carjackings. We do not have air-conditioning, and our windows are down.
My mom sees a group of black squirrels for the first time in her life. And she yells out "OH MY GOD THEY'RE BLACK! THEY'RE ALL BLACK"
I swear to you, I have never seen turn so pale so quick. She looks around and sees that lots and lots of people walking around have, indeed, heard her.
Luckily, traffic was moving fast enough there wasn't too long of an awkward time with the people on the street.
Given the reaction everyone has to black squirrel I'm pretty sure the folks on the street knew why she'd yelled, but we didn't know that at the time. Lol
School mass shootings. For some reason the rest of the world loses their minds over them.
It's the high concentration of Likes and Prayers.
I knew god was personally responsible for the few thousand children killed every year by gun violence!
Montreal. I don't understand the people that excitedly wait for the metro to arrive and take pictures. It's a subway.
People that take panoramic shots of downtown of people walking on the sidewalk.
I guess some tourists come from places with no rail or sidewalks.
Most Metros and trains look different in different countries. I like to take photos of them when I'm abroad because it's part of the experience for me. Sure, the differences are small, but sometimes it's all the more interesting when something works almost like it does at home but not exactly the same.
And then I think you underestimate the amount of people who photograph trains as a hobby. I think the German train photography subreddit regularly had posts in r/all.
As someone who has never ridden a train (unless you count the thing they use to get around the Atlanta airport or the slow ones at a theme park or zoo), I wouldn't be shocked if I ended up doing something similar. I just think trains are neat and would love to ride one someday.
Sure, ride one, but is it an emotional experience to see a motorized vehicle on tracks arrive in a metro station?
According to my 6 year old that's a definite yes!
So I do Uber in a small town tourist trap in a very red state. Convention center has a gun show what seems like every other month. I picked up some people from another country at the hotel next to the convention center on one of these all too common days. A dude was in the cross walk with some kinda hunting rifle on his back, and they immediately started trying to take pictures. Granted I have never seen the dude at McDonald's/Baskin Robbins with an AR strap to himself and two other pistols on his hip, so this city is at least that civilized.
