Monday Morning Quote: "No place is ever as bad as they tell it's going to be."
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Have you ever visited countries that were told to be bad?
I don't know how many times I've heard from people that some places should not be visited for a series of reasons. Mainly those opinions come from people who have never steped outside of their own comfort zones; or am I being way too optimistic?
I have proved to myself that some locations seen as dangerous, are not really all that bad. Am I pushing the luck too far?
I wonder if you have gone to places with a really bad *reputation*, but in reality turned out to be great.
What's your interpretation of this quote? Feel free to 'philosophize' on the comments down bellow.
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I would say that quote is mostly true. Its just expectation management. Your more at risk of dream destinations turning bad as you have such high hopes for them. That said if someone said I had to spend 6 months in suburban Damascus perhaps it would be as bad as I expect.
Yeah, I guess we can only draw a conclusion when we go and see it. I had a really bad image of my own city, until I started travelling. I was able to see that some places were not as different, or much better.
I guess it all goes on travelling styles, I think hitchhikers like me tend to see countries in a better way, because we are more connected to the people and the simplicity.
For example, people say that Iceland is super expensive, but for me it would possibly not be. Or that Brazil is super dangerous, yet I have never been robbed.
Yep very true.