What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?
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But it also isn't used in the fancy rich places simply because it's expensive, it's also because it's beautiful.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I feel like it's 80% the expense. If most rock was like that everybody would be looking for boring sandstone.
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Does he have a tail or am I seeing the armadillo's dick there?
They have tails. May still be a dick idk
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I grew up in Ohio and we had shitloads of opossums. Also deer.
Yeah I recently left and I miss the little guys.
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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?
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Trees which change color in the fall
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Mountains, Great beer and legal weed.
So Canada then.
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The church in the town from when OP lived in the UK.
TBF it did take me a moment to parse too.
Was it that hard? The UK was the subject and NZ was mentioned as the comparison.
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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.
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Was it that hard? The UK was the subject and NZ was mentioned as the comparison.
and wtf do Emu's have to do with either the UK of NZ
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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?
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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.
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What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?
This is so mundane fried chicken for me, just comfort food in the Philippines, but no thanks to some influencers, tourists flock to this specific fast food restaurant expecting it to be some culinary treasure.
Like a Jolibees or something?
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
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So Canada then.
Canada does have mountains and legal weed.
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The church in the town from when OP lived in the UK.
TBF it did take me a moment to parse too.
Thank you. Now that makes sense to me. And I used emu because I didn't know NZ fauna and defaulted to AUS.
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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.
Whales, northern lights, reindeer
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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.
Canal bridges that open to let ships through for some reason? I often see tourist making pictures of that.
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Niagara Falls. It's spectacular to visitors but for me it's right there so it's just a bunch of water falling off a ledge.
As a tourist I was fascinated by the colourful lighting of the falls and the amount of tall buildings around. For some reason I used to imagine the Niagara Falls as a beautiful natural site.
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Putting more stuff in washable bottles than before happens in many places? Are you sure?
Czechia as well, pretty sure more European countries.
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We had bendy buses for a brief moment.
i NORCAL they are basically on the most of the lines that travel the longest routes.
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no speed limit is annoying as fuck. there is absolute chaos on the autobahn because of it. everyone drives at different speeds and dangerous manouvres (like tailgating, driving 200 kmh on a full road or in the rain) are common occurances. i hate driving in germany. we are an idiot nation when it comes to driving and cars in general
it actually creates a lot of traffic jams too. The differences in speed and the goal to drive even faster produce hard braking moments which have a chain reaction. Especially in rush hour, where it matters, we really don't get anywhere faster.
We are stupid for not limiting speed
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I was a bit excited that the US squirrels are gray and large, we have smaller red ones in Germany.
and the german ones are really skittish too.
Those i saw on the canadian campus just lay next to the side walk, chilling. Fat and grey
