What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?
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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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Kinda the opposite of the question, but I'm a USian and I was super excited when I saw some European countries have public bathroom doors that didn't have tiny slot that you could see through while I was pooping.
What the fuck are we doing over here? Besides the letting fascists take over thing.
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We went to the mostly abandoned Anne of Green Gables theme park in Hokkaido, Canadian World, a couple months ago.
The translation of the book was done particularly well, I think. It was prescribed in schools. And the setting was attractive to those stuck in big cities.
"what in your country is totally normal"
Japan: "We have a Canada theme park"
O_o
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Mountains. We got a lot of em
wrote last edited by [email protected]Cute hills
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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.
I'm lucky enough that I see these little guys on a regular basis.
The first time I went to London, the size of the Ravens caught me off guard. I couldn't get enough of seeing those things. We only really see Grackles in South Texas that regularly and they're half the size, so I'm sure I was the weird bird guy that day to many people.
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Lived in the UK for a while - Squirrels, and the fact that the church in the town we lived in was built before ANY humans set foot in New Zealand
Damn, that's an old church, I know there are a few still standing from around the Norman conquest
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Climate stuff comes to mind. Big storms, it being sunny almost all the time, and -30C. There's other climates that are similar, of course, but I guess most people don't live in them, because visitors remark on it. Europeans tend to be gobsmacked by the amount of empty space there is between human structures, too.
A lot of pests people think are everywhere are just nowhere to be seen because of the cold. That's more something that's missing, though.
Free healthcare and French labeling, for the Americans. I'm not sure if they think the money is cool or just stupid.
Kay, but summer/spring is brutal for the deer flies and mosquitoes
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I heard that there was a firefly boom this year, I can't remember the cause though. It sure is nice though, reminds me of when I was a kid.
I live in the forest, we had many fireflies in our area the past couple of years thankfully
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Marble is expensive in places where there isn't already a lot of it simply because it's HEAVY.
But it also isn't used in the fancy rich places simply because it's expensive, it's also because it's beautiful.
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The sun.
You must be getting tourists from Finland.
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Lived in the UK for a while - Squirrels, and the fact that the church in the town we lived in was built before ANY humans set foot in New Zealand
It's not very common to see squirrels in Japan but they're all over the place in the states. I was hiking in the woods with a group and one of the Japanese people spotted a squirrel and told everyone so they could have a look. Where I'm from maybe you'd point out a deer or rabbit or something (although those are pretty common too), but it's pretty much impossible to not see a squirrel or chipmunk if you go outside.
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Climate stuff comes to mind. Big storms, it being sunny almost all the time, and -30C. There's other climates that are similar, of course, but I guess most people don't live in them, because visitors remark on it. Europeans tend to be gobsmacked by the amount of empty space there is between human structures, too.
A lot of pests people think are everywhere are just nowhere to be seen because of the cold. That's more something that's missing, though.
Free healthcare and French labeling, for the Americans. I'm not sure if they think the money is cool or just stupid.
Sunny and -30°C. You live in the arctic?
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Lumberjacking, but business has been pretty slow
Emperor Penguins are tough competition.
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Hey, that souvenir shop with the giant wizard head over the door is totally worth getting excited about.
When that shop first opened, the Wizard was holding a scepter with a giant glass globe. It may have lit up at night, I don't remember. It was very impressive.
Not long after it went up, Hurricane Charlie hit, and tore everything up, and the giant globe was destroyed. I would love to see video of it exploding in the storm.
To this day, they have never replaced the globe.
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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.
Hot air balloons. I see them in the sky most mornings when I go for a walk, weather permitting.
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I've seen deer just wander through my yard in town
We also get turkeys.
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For some reason, Japanese tourists go nuts for PEI. Now I've nothing against PEI, it's a nice enough province in the beautiful maritimes. Good potatoes.
But I don't think it deserves THAT much hype.
It's definitely because of Anne of Green Gables, not necessarily the island itself. Anne is HUGE in Japan, visiting her hometown is like meeting your favourite celebrity.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
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"what in your country is totally normal"
Japan: "We have a Canada theme park"
O_o
During the economic boom, Japanese people had money, but traveling overseas was still scary if it wasn't Hawaii or Cairns, and even if they had the courage, they didn't have the vacation time to get all the way to Newfoundland and back. Hence the many various theme parks that popped up all over the country, each more bizarre than the last. Most of them are shut now, many abandoned in various states of decay. Quite fun to explore!
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Is there an origin story for that saying around there?
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Is there an origin story for that saying around there?
Not that I know of, but the saying is very old. I remember my great-grandma telling me it when I was little.
