I’m sure that’s true for many people. When European tourists visit the US, however, how many are actually going deep into the interior of the US? Most tourists, I’d imagine, would be staying somewhat near one of the coasts and mainly sticking to the major cities. I doubt many Europeans have anywhere in Nebraska on their itineraries. Probably not a ton of European tourists in the US right now anyway, but I mean in the recent past at times of relative political normalcy.
It makes sense, though. Most people who are travelling don’t have the time or money to spend months seeing all the highlights of a place as large as Europe or the US. Even just these countries offer a ton to see, whether its the cities or the countryside. I can’t speak for how well-traveled Europeans are, but very few people in the US, even those who have lived long lives here, are able to say they’ve even visited every state, let alone seen the whole country. I bet that’s probably true of Europe for Europeans, too.
I myself don’t have much money for travelling, so I’ve only been to 11 states (and never even left the country), and I certainly did not see everything those states had to offer. Some states are often called “fly-over” states and, frankly, aren’t usually considered worthwhile places to visit anyway (even by Americans), so you can be forgiven for skipping those. I’m sure Europe has its equivalents, too.
This was my first thought when I saw your meme lol. Only other major destination might be Chicago
Orlando for Disney world
But fuck Florida on principle.
Maybe a coma might help you somewhere there… unless, that’s what you are into, in which case I won’t judge you
To be fair, it’d be a lot more difficult to comment if he was in a coma.
Lol, fair point
Orlando for
Disney worldGatorlandFTFY
Woo Gatorland! Best school field trip ever! (Okay but riding Space Mountain with the lights on was still neat…)
What about some of the famous national parks. I’ve seen a lot of europeans at places like Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone
That was the other thing I had considered. I ultimately figured those tourists were in the minority, though, but I could be wrong. Visiting National parks will definitely lead to seeing more of the country seeing as most aren’t that close to a major airport, but at the same time, it’s a specific destination in the same way a major city is, in that many will come just for the park and then leave. Maybe that doesn’t matter, though.
Also popular is renting a car in CA and then driving around there, to Vegas and some other national parks (a la Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and Utah’s).
I mean, Americans do the same thing.
Those are called flyover states for a reason.
Tbh I would hardly give a fuck for any large city after New York. I’d much rather travel through rural areas.
seems like a pretty decent trip, just missing Seattle and the national parks
I’ve been to many small places around Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota etc (that middle part full of nothing), voluntarily. Trying to do a road trip “Supernatural style” (the TV show, with burgers but without the monsters). I really liked that but I wanted to see real normal America, not the bells and whistles TV front.
Not to be rude but your huge cities (mostly NY and LA) sucks as a European. It’s not even the lack of public transport, it’s just that they are way too huge. Paris, London, Madrid, Warsaw etc are big, but not THAT big.
My plan for the next trip was to do rural Texas, I wanted to see real rednecks with my own eyes.
But… That was before the fire nation attacked. Now I’m staying in Europe, plenty of things to see here.
As someone who grew up in Texas, if you plan on visiting to see real Texas(sometime in the future of course) then I’d say come for the tex-mex food. Austin and surrounding areas would be good to visit.
I’m surprised your main gripe with places like LA or NY are that they’re too big and sprawling and not that they’re dirty and full of unseemly things like homelessness and drug use (though I feel those issues are blown out of proportion by the culture war and deserve actual help). That’s par for the course for many big cities, though.
I’d agree that most large cities have the same problem with travelling any large area in that you could live there for years and still not see everything. Any big city will have cool places to check out, but you’ll definitely get an authentic USA experience visiting places like the ones you’ve been: blue-collar workers enjoying a beer after their shift at the local dive bar; small town events and celebrations; regional gatherings like rodeos, etc.; tiny, greasy, 50-year-old eateries with the best burgers or BBQ around, etc. Simple living. It’s not all so romantic, though. There’s a fair amount of poverty in those parts of the country and substance-abuse is quite common in some parts, too. People tend to be very friendly, though, which isn’t always the case in larger cities.
Appalachia ought to be on your list for seeing rednecks as well. It has the same problems, but also many of the same kinds of draws. It also has a lot of natural beauty. Totally different kind of redneck. Another kind still, are the bayou rednecks.
Can’t blame you for wanting to stay away at this point, though.
I’m surprised your main gripe with places like LA or NY are that they’re too big and sprawling and not that they’re dirty and full of unseemly things like homelessness and drug use
Oh it is as well but I was trying to be somewhat positive.
I think my real main gripe with LA is the immense social fracture between rich and poor. You can see an homeless man with his feet turned black for not having shoes and right next to him a fucker trying to impress girls with his Lamborghini.
Getting to the country side to see normal life and normal people was exactly my goal, just getting to a bar in a small town and making friends because of my obvious French accent. I was there for the social part and the nature sighting (and it was very nice!)
how did you like the fourteenth strip mall? wasn’t it cool how everything, like the entire country’s culture, was like a giant shopping mall?
And pie.
The US is not a continent though. You can say, you went to Italy and France. No one expects you to specify the states and say “I went to Lazio, Tuscany, Lombardy and Rhône-Alpes”.
Yeah, but in the same sense that when one says they’ve “travelled” the US, chances are they’ve only actually seen a small portion of the country, just like it’s a little dubious when US tourists claim to have “travelled” Europe and only actually seen a small portion of the continent. The contiguous US is only a little bigger than Europe, most US states rival European countries in terms of size, and many European countries have administrative regions (using whatever term they prefer) that are also roughly the size of many US state counties, so I feel it’s actually a pretty apt comparison all the way down. San Bernardino County, CA, for example, is about the size of Tuscany.
You need to read the replies. The Dutch in particular are apparently very annoyed that people do this and only visit Amsterdam or Copenhagen. There are quite a few others in here as well. People just looking for a reason to shit on others is all that’s happening in here.
I would like to interject, the Dutch aren’t Danish…Copenhagen is a city in Denmark…
A lot of the big European metros are outside the 3 countries listed in the meme though.
As a European my lifelong dream is to visit Hot Springs, Arkansas.
But calling Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium etc. the equivalent of Nebraska is just wrong.
Of course, and that’s not what I had in mind, either. All of those places are most certainly worth making trips to. I’m just assuming there are some countries even most Europeans don’t bother visiting. Maybe Moldova (sorry Moldovans)? Again, I don’t really know, though.
I get it is a joke, but Germany is #2 visited by Americans and Netherlands is 4, above Italy at 5.
Where as we Europeans tend to visit every state in the US. /s
Obviously. No European can pass up a chance to see Nebraska
We don’t visit that scary place anymore. You could just as easy be diverted to El Salvador upon arrival.
Yeah, whenever I’m in Rochester, NY there’s always so many European tourists.
Stop gatekeeping tourism. “Oh, if you don’t live in each city of each country for at least a week, are you even outside your home?” Who TF you think has money for that? People will choose what they want to see. If they stay in one or two cities, they haven’t seen enough. If they run through 10 countries in 12 days, it was only a shallow visit. Who can win? Fuck off with that bullshit.
Traveling [place] implies you’re seeing a large enough portion of it to be representative to all of [place]. That’s what this is making fun of. Nobody says ‘im travelling the US’ when theyre just going to NYC and Florida. At most they’d say they’re going TO the US. That’s just what those respective phrasings imply. The meme isn’t ripping on not travelling or not travelling everywhere.
I have never heard anyone say that they’re “travelling Europe” in my life. I don’t think this is a thing. I’ve heard people say “I’m going to [insert European country]” instead. I’ve heard people claim to backpack across Europe, though I don’t know where that usually entails.
Traveling [place] implies you’re seeing a large enough portion of it to be representative to all of [place].
[citation needed]
You can also just go to one of the other countries instead
I just said people will go to where they want to go. Did I fucking stutter?
If they want to go to Paris instead of the just as romantic Prague, you don’t get a say in it. None of your business.
evidently people feel like they do, or they wouldn’t updoot memes about it
And people will start listening when said opinions pays their mortgage. Until then “lol, no” will be your answer.
people don’t get to do many overseas vacations. Makes sense they would want to go to the best countries first? Yes every country is unique beautiful and people are interesting and if someone can afford to keep exploring, it’s endless delight. but Italy, France, Spain are not deemed the best for no reason. It’s because they genuinely are
idk i think “best” is doing rather a lot of work here. smaller countries can be quite interesting and hospitable as well. i quite enjoyed my time in finland personally
i emphasized several times that other countries can also be interesting and enjoyable and terrific. Does not mean one is not much better. You might choose to go to Finland if you’ve already visited Italy but, again, not everyone can afford multiple trips, even over the course of their lifetime. And when you can only choose one, you don’t start with niche. Very few people would pass on visiting many different places, it’s just that most people don’t have that option
I haven’t visited Italy tho and do not plan to. or Spain or France. Finalnd is as real a country as any other and not “niche”
No different than European tourists “traveling the US” visiting a couple of big cities and maybe the Grand Canyon on a stop in between.
For a more accurate map, erase everything south of Rome, including Sicily, as well as Corsica and Sardinia. At the northern end of things, probably also Ireland and Scotland.
Then make four new tiny islands and name them Barcelona, Munich, Amsterdam and Prague.Naples?
I also don’t get why it only includes NI and not Eire. Don’t most Americans go to Dublin, Cork, Galway, Waterford, Limerick?
I think NI is included as part of the UK and, if we’re being honest, it’s rare that they visit anything more than an hour from London or Edinburgh so having most of the rest of the UK is push too.
Keep Tuscany, Rome, Milan, Naples and Venice and you are done for Italy.
Hi from Lisboa, Portugal… let me tell you, the tourists absolutely know about us. A bit too much…
Agreed from New Jersey. I was fortunate enough to go with a friend whose family is all from Portugal, in Furadurao or however it’s spelled, I dunno. But did Lisboa, Porto, stopped at the home of the oldest brothers in Portugal (at the time). Was fed much portwine at every home we stopped at, and ate bread with melted cheese in it that I’ve been chasing for the last 15 years since we were there.
I’m fortunate to be from Jersey for many reasons, but one of them is the huge Portuguese population we have and the cooking they brought with them.
East Europe: skeleton sitting on a chair at the bottom of the lake
Don’t want russia to shoot down your plane, or bomb the hotel you are staying at.
That is as likely as a cartel hit in New York because it’s so close to Mexico.
Actually, metros in Eastern Europe tend to be safer for tourists by statistics for some reason.
That’s like being scared in Chicago because something exploded in Washington.
Case in point.
At least put Amsterdam on there😂
I’ve not done any traveling myself I’ll admit, but I would have figured at least Germany Spain and Greece would have also made the list from how much I hear of people visiting them. Especially Greece.
Americans don’t consider Greece part of Europe. It’s part of history.
This is a nonsense statement 🤣
I don’t understand how people come up with these narratives.
White Egypt Syndrom
Just wait until you find out about the Ptolemaic kingdom
Spain for sure as well, but I guess the joke wouldn’t hit as hard if you tried to make it totally accurate
People rip on Americans like this because they don’t know we get 10 days off a year and have to pay $20,000 for the ambulance.
This is the only type of Euro Trip we can afford to take.
Strange, because eastern Europe is a lot cheaper to travel than France, Italy or the UK. Those are some of the most expensive countries actually.
Flying there from the US is more expensive and Americans generally don’t want to see Eastern Europe.
More cost, less benefit.
Might as well only mark the most visited cities and capitals.
I consider myself European, then German. The EU keeps the peace between the old rivals.
Latvian here. I have more trust/loyalty to EU than my country itself. Kinda weird when you think about it… or not.
+1
Obviously they also have to go to Eire and annoy the locals by claiming to be Irish and asking where the Blarney Stone is for a selfie.
